How to be a Brilliant Trainee Teacher

by Trevor Wright Academic

This cheerful and accessible book is packed with direct and straightforward advice drawn from the author’s extensive and successful personal experience as teacher-trainer, teacher and examiner. It sets out clear and practical guidelines to support your training and enhance your teaching, moving you directly towards a real understanding of how and why pupils learn and of how you can enhance your own progress. It also offers reassurance and support with the difficulties which you might encounter through your training as a teacher. Why won’t Year 8 actually do anything? Why do we have to read all this theory? I know my pace and timing need improvement, but what do I actually do about it? Why haven’t I moved forward at all in the last four weeks? It does this Although a practical book, at its heart lie essential principles about good teaching and learning. It is anecdotal and readable, and may be dipped into for innovative lesson ideas or read from cover-to-cover as a short, enjoyable course which discovers exciting teaching principles in successful, practical experience. The book is ideal for secondary trainee teachers, but the underlying principles about what makes a brilliant trainee teacher are applicable to primary trainees too.

Genres: Teaching

176 pages, Paperback

First published July 26, 2007

Reviews

[Cat of Perdition · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really good book to help you wrap your head around the aspects of actually being a trainee, and what's important to focus on during your training year.

[Kayleigh Cassidy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lot's of great tips for trainee teachers. Despite being secondary school specific, I found the chapters about differentiation and creating routines very helpful and transferable to the Primary classroom. At times the tone was daunting, almost overwhelming. I guess it's hard to be BRILLIANT when you are new and learning, but helpful advise non the less.