101 Ways to Win in Teaching in Secondary School - Gurdeep Singh

101 Ways to Win in Teaching in Secondary School

Managing Behaviour, Workload and Wellbeing

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
166 Seiten
2024
Brilliant Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78317-354-9 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
Experienced teacher, Gurdeep Singh, provides practical tips and strategies for secondary school teachers to help them manage classroom behaviour, reduce their workload and improve their own wellbeing.


Full of humorous anecdotes of the author's teaching successes (and some failures), this book will be invaluable for ECTs and anyone else who is struggling to remember why they went into teaching in the first place. Gurdeep truly believes that teaching is the best profession in the world and, if you are feeling a bit overwhelmed, this book will help you to discover (or rediscover) a love of teaching.


The book provides practical, easy-to-use tips on how to build positive relationships, improve classroom behaviour and win over even the most difficult of classes. Tips include advice on seating plans, body language, getting support from other teachers and how to deal with challenging students in a non-confrontational and positive way.


New teachers often struggle with the workload. Gurdeep's practical suggestions for cutting down planning and marking time and dealing with everything from being a form tutor to parents' evenings, will help teachers to get their evenings and weekends back.


The first few years of teaching are the most difficult. Having to deliver four or five hours of lessons each day is exhausting, both physically and mentally. When this is combined with planning, report writing, marking work and responding to parents, it is not surprising that a third of teachers quit in the first five years of teaching. 101 Ways to Win in Teaching in Secondary School provides a manual to help new teachers get through those first years and start to thrive in teaching.

CONTENTS


INTRODUCTION


CHAPTER 1 THE STARTER


CHAPTER 2 BEST OF THE BEST




1 Thank you, it has been a pleasure

2 Let the good kids win

3 Really make them think at the start of the lesson

4 Stock balls and doosras

5 Replace the word 'work' with 'learning'

6 Find out about the best teachers in your school and ask yourself why

7 Accept that it will take time (and focus on the positives)

8 Hands-down questioning

9 Stand up, sit down

10 Be a great form tutor

11 A laugh and a smile? Rudeness and disrespect or just embarrassment?

12 Make confrontations a win-win

13 Simplicity of a three-part lesson

14 Anagrams - to asrtt and ifshin

15 Bad lessons? Blame yourself first

16 Slay the marking monster - who is working harder?

15-minute challenge

17 Slay the planning monster - 10-minute preparation

18 Support circles - learn from others

19 Support staff - the heart and body of the school

20 Wellbeing - YOU have the power to change the way you view things

21 Simple messages and instructions repeated over and over

22 Organisation - growing extra arms and legs

KEY TAKEAWAYS


CHAPTER 3 THE POWER STRUGGLE




23 Your classroom, your rules - seating plan

24 A look to say it all

25 Open your door, close their window of opportunity

26 Loose control or lose control

27 Sticky note questions

28 Don't enjoy the honeymoon too much

29 No dead time in lessons

30 Change 'if you do, then I will' for poor conduct to 'because you have, now I will' for good behaviour

31 Class wars and bad groups

32 Elastic band - stretch and relax

33 Empathise during tellings-off, don't rant

34 The power of the start

35 The power of the plenary

36 Testing for behaviour

37 Don't encourage an audience

38 Give them space in lessons - they need it

39 Ownership of the line

40 Write the following down

41 De-escalate

KEY TAKEAWAYS


CHAPTER 4 THE HUMAN TOUCH




42 Build lessons around what they need and want (and tell them what they want if they don't know)

43 'Yes, Sir', 'Yes, Miss' and the disarming smile

44 Name that name

45 Good detentions

46 Praise for everyone

47 Give a little piece of your heart

48 'I haven't got a pen'

49 Calming of the mind

50 Excuse me, am I boring you?

51 The pat on the back

52 Getting it wrong and changing your mind

53 Am I doing a good job? What could I change?

54 Meet and greet

55 The new student

56 Parents - emails and phone calls

KEY TAKEAWAYS


CHAPTER 5 WALK THE WALK




57 Dress as a role model

58 Good morning, good morning

59 Enjoy the classroom

60 Extracurricular, extra respect

61 Aspirational pitching

62 Walk the unfamiliar school

63 Don't speak - they'll know what you're asking and thinking

64 Play your personality

65 Embrace and learn from bad lessons - don't brush those experiences under the carpet

66 The great resources hoarder

67 Enjoy the small victories

68 Parents' evenings - how to manage them

69 Technology - knowing when and how to use it

70 Complaints about students - keep things in perspective

71 Supply cover - the nightmare dream teacher job

72 Reading, reading, reading

73 The one-hour, six-lesson planning challenge

74 Ensure that your classroom is an extension of you

KEY TAKEAWAYS


CHAPTER 6 TALK THE TALK




75 The controlled shout

76 Learn to act - watch wrestling!

77 Learn to act - watch stand-up comedy

78 The third person in the room

79 Perfect your lines

80 Only pause for applause

81 Explanation or argument?

82 The quiet mouse

83 Buying yourself time

84 The ineffective angry teacher - remember the dream?

85 Breaking the silence

86 Tweaking your (high) expectations

87 Build up to negatives and positives

88 Distracting the negatives

89 Cold comebacks

KEY TAKEAWAYS


CHAPTER 7 MIND GAMES




90 Tales of the unexpected

91 The line between confidence and arrogance

92 Sweet little lies

93 Use the force

94 Talk choices

95 Magic and mystery

96 Develop their memory, build their confidence

97 Be larger than life

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Bedfordshire
Sprache englisch
Maße 229 x 152 mm
Gewicht 250 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
ISBN-10 1-78317-354-8 / 1783173548
ISBN-13 978-1-78317-354-9 / 9781783173549
Zustand Neuware
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