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July 3, 2025
Not Quite a Teacher: Target practice for beginning teachers
- Author
- Bennett, Tom
- Publisher
- Continuum International Publishing Group, New York
- ISBN
- 9781441120960
- Book Review Link
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/teth.12112/abstract
- Table of Contents
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Introduction
Part 1. The Starter
ch. 1 No one forgets their first teacher: Stepping onto the rollercoaster
ch. 2 Keep the door propped open: Being a stranger in a strange land
ch. 3 Teachers teaching teachers: Inside the secret garden of teacher training
Part 2: The Teaching Placements
ch. 4 Drag me to Hell: In school, no one can hear you scream
ch. 5 Not waving, but drowning: Going under on the first placement
ch. 6 Be the Inspiration: Starting to feel like a teacher
ch. 7 Quo Vadis?: Facing up to the job market
Part 3: The Plenary
ch. 8 Are you a real teacher, Sir?: Putting the practice into practise
ch. 9 Cannons to the left, marking to the right: Adventures beyond the classroom
ch. 10 The Plenary; What have we learned?
Appendix: Useful websites
Index
There are many, many teacher training books that claim to offer practical advice; some of them are even useful. There are also humorous books aimed at teachers claiming to offer a zany, sideways look at our madcap world; some of them even contain a joke.
This book, although light in tone, has a serious intent: to reassure trainee and beginning teachers that are parachuted into difficult schools without anything like the right level of preparation. Tom Bennett walks you through the training and initial teaching practice, offering practical advice and wisdom from the more experienced vantage point of hindsight. This double-narrator style allows you to identify with the situation, learn from the experience and then critically reflect on your own teaching journey. But most importantly, this is a teacher training guide disguised as something actually readable. (From the Publisher)
This book, although light in tone, has a serious intent: to reassure trainee and beginning teachers that are parachuted into difficult schools without anything like the right level of preparation. Tom Bennett walks you through the training and initial teaching practice, offering practical advice and wisdom from the more experienced vantage point of hindsight. This double-narrator style allows you to identify with the situation, learn from the experience and then critically reflect on your own teaching journey. But most importantly, this is a teacher training guide disguised as something actually readable. (From the Publisher)