So you want to be a teacher? : how to launch your teaching career / Lucy Waide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waide, Lucy.

Series:

So you want to be a...

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching--Vocational guidance--Great Britain.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (116 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Working in any institution is difficult. Add a few hundred teenagers to the equation and it becomes a near certainty that it will be virtually impossible to slide in smoothly and set up camp. This short, yet invaluable guide aims to dispel the many myths surrounding teaching and instead tells it like it is. Brimming with tricks and techniques to make you shine, Lucy Waide writes engagingly and accessibly. A must-read for all trainees and NQTs.

Contents:

Why would you want to teach?

Pathways into teaching

Requirements

Standards and evidence

Your initial teacher's training placement

Mentors

Your professional development folder (PDF)

Precious NQT status

Mundane meetings

Housekeeping

Special educational needs (SEN)/behaviour and discipline

School politics - how to survive in the staff room : the many hats

Going for interviews

Acronyms

Plenary.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-87474-8

9786612874741

1-4411-4846-9

OCLC:

676700062