How to Teach - Softcover

Phil Beadle has been described as the country's most inspirational teacherA" by The Times Newspaper. He is also author of Could Do Better: Help Your Kids Shine at School.

Here's the book that tells you everything that traditional teacher training courses don't --why 'pens down' and 'bags on the floor' may be the most important words you'll ever utter, how to build the respect of a class, how to survive those challenging first few days (or years) as a fledgling teacher. Conveyed with astringent honesty and directness, Phil Beadle's classroom wisdom cuts through the jargon and psycho-babble of too many guides for teachers. His book is an intoxicating, often hilarious, and deeply wise reminder of why being a teacher can - if you get the essential ingredients right - be one of the most rewarding jobs in the world. --Geoff Barton, Headteacher, King Edward VI School, UK

Quite simply, the most fantastic and thoroughly realistic book for anyone embarking on a career in teaching. In fact, I would highly recommend it to anyone in the profession, however experienced there were! The book incorporates just about everything you need to know about current thinking, behaviour management, how to engage today's pupils and most importantly gives a true picture of the reality of classroom practice. It is a thoroughly readable and insightful book written with with great humour and crucially shows a total empathy with pupils and how to help them reach their full potential. --Maggie Shevlane, Kent Lead Advanced Skills Teacher

This book is that rare thing in education. Readable. Hugely readable, and necessary. Hugely necessary! It's also hip, sharp, sussed, funny and extremely practical - a scintillating, pedagogical romp, written by someone who knows. You want to be a 'phenomenal teacher and not just mediocre? Well, this is indeed your bible. It's a happy mix of the idealistic and the tough. There are no short cuts to success. It's very hard graft, but get the basics right and the rest will follow. Get them wrong and you're toast. Teaching, for Beadle, is really 'a performance art'. Dullness is not an option and his judgements are severe. Bore the kids and it becomes their moral responsibility to misbehave. This is the Knowledge. It's necessary. It's often hilarious. It works. For the new teacher it is indeed the Bible. And for old-timers...I taught for 35 years and if I'd read this book I would have been so much better. --Ian Whitwham, former teacher and journalist

Quite simply, the most fantastic and thoroughly realistic book for anyone embarking on a career in teaching. In fact, I would highly recommend it to anyone in the profession, however experienced there were! The book incorporates just about everything you need to know about current thinking, behaviour management, how to engage today's pupils and most importantly gives a true picture of the reality of classroom practice. It is a thoroughly readable and insightful book written with with great humour and crucially shows a total empathy with pupils and how to help them reach their full potential. --Maggie Shevlane, Kent Lead Advanced Skills Teacher

This book is that rare thing in education. Readable. Hugely readable, and necessary. Hugely necessary! It's also hip, sharp, sussed, funny and extremely practical - a scintillating, pedagogical romp, written by someone who knows. You want to be a 'phenomenal teacher and not just mediocre? Well, this is indeed your bible. It's a happy mix of the idealistic and the tough. There are no short cuts to success. It's very hard graft, but get the basics right and the rest will follow. Get them wrong and you're toast. Teaching, for Beadle, is really 'a performance art'. Dullness is not an option and his judgements are severe. Bore the kids and it becomes their moral responsibility to misbehave. This is the Knowledge. It's necessary. It's often hilarious. It works. For the new teacher it is indeed the Bible. And for old-timers...I taught for 35 years and if I'd read this book I would have been so much better. --Ian Whitwham, former teacher and journalist