How to be a Successful Teacher
Strategies for Personal and Professional Development
- Paul Castle - Formerly of University of Worcester, UK
- Scott Buckler - Independent Academic, Teacher, Chartered Psychologist
Teaching is a rewarding, yet demanding profession, one in which a person needs to be fully prepared. This book focuses on the applied psychological skills, strategies, and resources, which will help to ensure teachers are equipped with personal and professional expertise to survive in the classroom.
Key Features
- Provides an overview of important psychological themes within teaching such as confidence, motivation, and self esteem
- Explores physical issues related to successful psychological functioning, such as fitness and nutrition
- Offers advice and activities which show how to learn and use psychological skills techniques directly
Readily accessible to a wide audience, including internationally, the book assumes no prior knowledge of psychology. The authors give specific examples taken from a diverse range of professional situations with relevant theoretical underpinnings.
The text provides support to students taking teacher training courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. It will also help teachers in their formative professional years.
Engaging and lively writing style which gets to the heart of students' preoccupations in the early days of both training and teaching.
It deals with qualified teachers development, which will be useful for students who are about to take up their NQT post within school.
a practical book focusing on the psychological themes relevant to teaching as well as exploring the psysiological issues influencing learning and teaching
How to be a Successful Teacher will be useful to students to help them understand the pressures of teaching. This text will reassure them that their anxieties are common. They can then use the practical strategies offered here to help them cope successfully
I especially liked the early emphasis on thepsychological aspects of teaching - higly relevant for reflection within DLTA module
the book informed lectures how to be an inclusive teacher, whilst keeping the learners on track at all times.
other lectures have gone ahead and purchased this book for their own reference
well written text - certainly will enhance many student's understanding of the subject and of improving their classroom practice
This book has some minor uses for this course - only in that it is aimed at preparation of general teachers and this course is about preparation of mentors in practice. It will be useful as supplemental materials for teaching.
This is the kind of book that ought to be a graduation present for all teachers finishing teacher training and for all teachers who are finding the going tough. It is packed with useful, practical ideas to help teachers keep sane in busy times i.e. all of them! Although stongly flavoured with self evaluation and reflection, it's so much better than the usual run-of-the-mill self-help psycho-babble available. Counsellors in education would also find this book valuable.
Sage College Publishing
