The Craft of the Classroom: A Survival Guide to Classroom Management in the Secondary School
by Michael Marland
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Manufacturer: Heinemann Educational Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 373.1
EAN: 9780435805777
ISBN: 0435805770
Label: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: 1975-10-20
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Studio: Heinemann Educational Publishers
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Summary: Read it!!
Comment: I'm so glad to see this book is still available. I read it decades ago and benefitted from it. I had been teacher-trained (!?!?!?) by those head-in-the-clouds bods who said "nobody can teach you how to teach"; meaning, they weren't going to try, though they took the money; and left it to Michael Marland and a handful of others to keep us alive in those dangerous early years. Take it from me, you can learn a few tricks on how to run a happy class, from people who will teach you. Find them, and learn from them, starting with MM.
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Summary: Distilled wisdom
Comment: 18 years down the line I find myself still recommending this book. My copy is a slim, faded and well-thumbed first edition, but the advice is timeless. The author is an experienced teacher who is simply happy to pass on what he has learned from a lifetime developing his craft, and that is what teaching is - an apprenticeship in the company of many wiser colleagues.
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Summary: A good read when you are feeling down
Comment: This book was on my PGCE reading list but I didn't get around to it until later. Actually I don't think I missed out here as to put many of the tips into practise you need full ownership of your classes (and preferably classroom). This is a really easy read, especially when compared to many teaching books, and is quite conversational and straightforward.
From the blurb I thought the book would mostly be about dealing with behavioural problems, but far more positively it focuses on preventing them.
Unusually Marland is prepared to give his opinions freely, for example he firmly gives suggestions on lesson openings and seating plans in a way I found refreshingly unequivocal.
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Summary: There is hope!
Comment: As a newly qualified and VERY de-motivated teacher, I bought this on a recommendation. I have barely been able to put it down. I am already half way through and have spent time highlighting sections of it to refer back to. It has reassured me, at this low point in my teaching career (albeit short so far) that I AM in the right job, I AM doing the right thing by my students and there are some small things that I could be doing to ensure I am more organised as a teacher and therefore project to my students what I want in no uncertain terms. This book is jam packed full of small golden nuggets of advice. Things that are so small and appear insignificant that they are overlooked by mentors, university trainers, HoF. Believe me this has inspired me to smile once more and to begin afresh from next week! This is a book to keep hold of and remind yourself that you are doing many things right, you've just got to keep refreshing your rules with the students and affirming your authority and above all - one of my biggest problems - be organised!
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Summary: The perfect guidebook for new teachers
Comment: I first encountered this readable book as a student teacher. One of our lecturers on my PGCE course constantly recommended it. And not without reason.
Michael Marland's tone is reassuring, thought-through and clearly coming from experience. I wish now I'd taken more of his advice earlier in my career.
This is a warm, humane volume. You won't find glossy illustrations or boxes of targets. Instead, you'll find practical advice on the day to day work of a teacher - and on such essentials for the classroom as pot plants! Especially useful is the chapter on working as a form tutor, an area often negelected in teacher training.
I've owned two copies of this book - the first I lent to a student teacher in my Department, and never came back... clearly a good recommendation; the second is under lock and key, but dog-eared and well-worn. Get your own.
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