The Handbook For Newly Qualified Teachers

First Published in 2000. All teachers want to get better at teaching. Sometimes the frantic pace of school life, the heavy demands and the need to conform to different people's expectations, conspire to suppress their creativity and initiative. This book provides a combination of explanation, challenge and practical activities to help busy practitioners enhance their work with pupils and make the best of their teaching opportunities. It is written in the belief that it is possible to get better at teaching by translating the time spent on a careful study of relevant issues into practical classroom experience, and using this experience as a basis for further reflection and study.

This revised text is a guide to a teacher's first year in the profession. It covers all aspects of this important year from induction to inspection. This edition contains: information on portfolio building; a section on searching for jobs and careers advice on the Internet; up-to-date information on obligations and government initiatives; a home-school agreements section; information on specific tutoring for students with SENs; and a section on voice protection.

The Newly Qualified Teacher’s Handbook is an essential companion for all new teachers. Practical, comprehensive and lively, this invaluable guide covers all aspects of your first crucial months and years, and will set your teaching career off on the right track. This updated and expanded second edition is the first book to draw on the new Induction Regulations for NQTs for September 2008 onwards. It gives tried and tested advice on everything you need to know, from induction to inspection, from getting your first job to continuing development. New features include a revised first chapter covering key areas of concern for trainees and NQTs, the updated statement of professional values and a comprehensive appendix detailing the code of conduct for teachers and further reading and references. Areas covered include: finding jobs and coping with them the interview process easing stresses and difficulties staffroom politics and etiquette what makes lessons effective the latest legislative requirements professional development and looking after the future. The Newly Qualified Teacher’s Handbook is an indispensable survival guide for all NQTs and trainees who want to sail swiftly and successfully through the first years of their teaching career.

Written to coincide with the introduction of Induction Standards for new entrants to the teaching profession, this text aims to help to smooth the transition from theory and supervised teaching to independent reflexive practice. It provides a combination of explanation, challenge, practical activities and authentic case studies. The author acknowledges the importance of professional development during the induction year and advocates the gradual implementation and reinforcement of effective strategies for good teaching. He also urges readers to develop the creative, intuitive and "natural-born" abilities that help to fashion their own individual teaching styles. Though informed by the Induction Standards, the aim of the book is to help teachers set ambitious personal and professional expectations through which they will realize their full potential.

Are you at the start of your teaching career? Do you want to know what it's REALLY like? Do you want to discover time saving ideas and shortcuts and avoid making too many mistakes?This book gives an honest insight into the wonderful, brilliant, emotional, tiring, challenging, frustrating world of being a teacher.Tim Mobbs is a Primary Leader who entered education through TeachFirst and rose through the ranks quickly. He has led Maths, Reading and Writing in several schools whilst leading Key Stage 2. He has particularly enjoyed mentoring trainees, students and Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) and developing them into excellent and resilient teachers. "I have written this book to help those at the start of their teaching careers learn from my mistakes and make them aware of the surprises and frustrations that I experienced in my career. It is the honest advice I wish someone had given me over a coffee and a chat before I started, but instead I sadly blundered into many avoidable mistakes, bleary eyed and unprepared. I hope this book stops others finding themselves in the same situation. I find that many education books paint a picture of an ideal and perfect profession in ideal and perfect classrooms - teaching is not that and neither is this book... but I would never do anything else!" - Tim Mobbs'The Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming A Teacher' is broken down into bitesize segments, perfect for busy and tired educators to consume at their leisure.The manageable chapters cover:- Settling in to School- Wellbeing- Home life- Wider School Life- Behaviour Management- Classroom Teaching- Personal Development- Relationships- Teaching Practice- The World of EducationThe author has experience in primary and secondary education and many of the sections transfer to both sectors. The book relays the ethos of working "Smarter not Harder" and has a focus on teacher wellbeing. It includes anecdotes alongside sage advice based on real life. There are many practical ideas provided to make an immediate impact on any teacher and classroom.This is the first in the series: The Things I Wish I Knew About...With the second book: The Things I Wish I Knew About Active Assessment currently being written.

This book is written by experienced teachers and teacher training experts to provide pragmatic and evidence-based support for newly qualified teachers.

With a down-to-earth writing style, this text provides NQTs with the practical advice that they need to help quell those September nerves. It tackles the real-life issues that worry new teachers, with a focus on the period before starting the first job.