1st Edition
Get Their Attention! Handling Conflict and Confrontation in Secondary Classrooms, Getting Their Attention!
160 Pages
by
David Fulton Publishers
160 Pages
by
David Fulton Publishers
160 Pages
by
David Fulton Publishers
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Classroom management is key to a successful teaching career. This book has survival advice for NQTs as well as ideas to develop the skills of more experienced teachers. It should: appeal directly to the reader with engaging examples from real classrooms; help readers to cope with every aspect of school life, including the staff room and teacher/parent meetings; and enable readers to pre-empt general classroom management problems.
Book Structure; Acknowledgement; Preface to the English edition; Preface to Parts 1 and 2 Part 1 On becoming a teacher: Application and interview; New to the school; Initial class contact; The start-up routine; Desperate measures!; Timing the lesson; Asking and taking questions; Making announcements and giving instructions; Pacing; Tests; Tolls of the trade; 'With-it-ness'; Homework; Files; Cover lessons; Staff meetings; The staffroom; Parents' evenings; School reports; Extracurricular activities; Educational visits. Part 2 Communicating authority in the classroom: Combating behaviour problems; Confidence; Dealing with trouble; Detention; School Code of Discipline; Exclusion; Triangulation; Meeting the parents; Recording; Emotional clarity; Coercive classroom management style. Preface to Part 3 Part 3 Enabling approaches to classroom management: The role of self-esteem in classroom management; Things teachers can do to raise the self-esteem of students; Teaching a 'difficult' class; Some suggestions when teaching a 'difficult' class; Maintaining relationship with students; Constructive confrontation; You're not listening to me!; Motivation; Some characteristic traits of children from troubled homes; Strategies 'low achievers' use for coping with school; Some suggestions on taking mixed ability classes; Specific learning difficulties: dyslexia and dyspraxia. Part 4 Teaching as a career: Phases in the teaching career; Minding ourselves; Strategies for thriving in the job. References; Appendices
Biography
O'Flynn, Sean; Kennedy, Harry; Macgrath, Michelle
