The book deals with Planning, Behaviour and Class Management, Teaching and Learning, and Assessment in four distinct parts, each of these being presented with a brief explanation and simple steps, rules and advice for putting them into practice.
Section 1 PLANNING
1 Keep it as simple as ABC
2 Plan to teach with precision
3 Don't just download
4 Differentiate to accomodate
5 Integrate to stimulate
6 Don't teach everything to the same depth
Section 2 BEHAVIOUR and CLASS MANAGEMENT
7 Get children to sit down, be quiet and listen to you
8 Set clear boundaries and guidelines
9 Catch children being good
10 Enter into unwritten contracts with children
11 Provide a safe and secure environment
12 Get children to take responsibility for their own actions
Section 3 TEACHING and LEARNING
13 You teach and the children learn
14 Guide children to discover for themselves
15 Determine the pace of the lesson
16 Make the children independent
17 Teach children to think
18 Organise group work
Section 4 ASSESSMENT
19 Assess and evaluate your teaching
20 Assess and evaluate your children
21 Personalised learning
Features
- Easily navigable and easy to dip in and out of on a need to know basis
- Examples of real classroom practice are used to illustrate key ideas
- Your own personal mentor in a book....
- Classic tried and tested advice inclded for each section
- Each idea comes with rules and advice for putting it into practice
