The topics considered include behaviour management, teaching and learning, building positive relationships with pupils and other staff and coping with stressful situations.
In bringing together the opinions and experiences of a range of education professionals, Louisa Leaman provides a broad and balanced profile of excellent teaching practice.
This book will act as a critical friend, helping you to reflect on your skills and strengths whilst offering a range of viewpoints that will throw up new and fresh solutions to familiar problems.
In the end, there may be no such thing as the perfect teacher but this book will help you to get closer to your ideal.
As the author says - What truly matters is that teaching is a career that feels exciting, manageable, worthwhile and, at times, extraordinarily wonderful.
Louisa Leaman is an experienced teacher and has taught in a variety of mainstream and special schools.
She now combines teaching part-time with writing, lecturing and training.
Her previous books include The Dictionary of Disruption, The Naked Teacher, Classroom Confidential and Managing Very Challenging Behaviour - all published by Continuum.
