In at the Deep End: A Survival Guide for Teachers in Post-Compulsory Education

by JimCrawley (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $43.27

  Teachers working in Post Compulsory Education are recognised as being subject to a particularly acute set of pressures and challenges. These can include highly diverse and sometimes challenging student groups, trying to manage a complex curriculum which changes regularly and rapidly, and having to respond to the intense demands of inspection, quality assurance regimes and major government policies.

  Now in its second edition, the highly regarded In at the Deep End: A Survival Guide for Teachers in Post-Compulsory Education will help you to manage the varied demands of teaching in PCE more effectively by offering friendly, professional advice and a range of teaching and learning activities which will help you become an effective, confident, committed and reflective teacher.

  With a range of strategies, activities and spaces to reflect, this positive and practical `survival guide' provides advice on:

  * Meeting initial challenges, working positively with your students and handling challenging behaviour

  * Accessing support, working with your local colleagues and a greater community of practice

  * Using straightforward techniques to help you manage pressure and conflict

  * Supporting skills for life, key skills and essential skills

  * Making positive use of Information and Communications Technology to support learning

  * Teaching your specialist subject

  * Managing inspections, developing as a leader and becoming a `Reflective Practitioner'.

  Lively and engaging, and built from the experience of many teachers across the last 30 years, this book will help all teachers overcome everyday problems and pressures to keep their `heads above water', and become efficient, skilled professionals in the Post Compulsory Education workforce.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2005

  $3.25

  Working in post-compulsory education can sometimes feel like being in at the deep end : teaching a highly diverse and sometimes challenging student group, trying to manage a rapidly changing and developing curriculum, a generally increasing workload and working with a level of bureaucracy that could defeat the faint-hearted-and that just takes care of Monday and Tuesday! The difference between sinking and swimming can be a small one...

  This positive and practical survival guide will help teachers to effectively manage these varied demands by offering friendly, professional advice and support on:

  * Meeting the initial challenges, working positively with students, supporting key skills and basic skills

  * Accessing support, working with colleagues and managing conflict

  * Handling challenging behavior, making positive use of ICT and teaching specialist subjects

  * Managing inspections, developing as a leader and becoming a reflective professional

  Lively and engaging, this book will help all new teachers overcome everyday problems and pressures to keep their heads above water and become efficient, skilled professionals in the post-compulsory workplace.