We hope our Student Teacher Survival Guide will help you in your your new teaching career. It is based on our work with thousands of students and working with hundreds of schools.
If you are a teacher with many years experience then please help our new teachers by giving them your stories, tips, techniques.
This video is excellent for teacher training in schools, colleges and universities. If you would like a copy on your computer to present to your staff or student teachers the cost is $13.
Listen to senior teachers with many years service. They are survivors. Get yourself a role model
Be assertive, firm and always, always respectful.
Important. Stress causes negative emotions, short tempers and loss of control. You MUST follow a daily De-Stressing Fitness Regime. Go to
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Learn how to be a great communicator. Study (NLP) Neuro Linguistic Programming, non-verbal body language as it accounts for 93% of your communication. Learn VAK - visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning and teaching styles. This will allow you to teach more effectively.
Inspire and motivate your students with role models, stories of achievement and success. See our Online Teaching Course below.
Make your subject come alive. Teach it with conviction, creativity and passion.
Manage your emotions by dissociating or stepping outside yourself and observing how you speak and act.
Be philosophical. You will have bad days. It is how you will deal with them that makes you a survivor
Use appropriate punishment for challenging behaviour, but also empathise to get to the root cause of the behaviour.
Show you are in control of yourself and your class by using relaxed, non-emotional body language and gestures.
Be consistent in your discipline. Don't have favourites and treat everyone equal.
Check for understanding and review during every lesson.
Always remember the best discipline is preventative discipline.
Learn classroom management techniques from the 'veterans'.
Watch inspirational films especially those about Teachers. Pay it Forward. Dead Poets Society. To Sir With Love. Dangerous Minds. Go here for more films and to order through Amazon. Films
Create your own student teacher survival guide. Grow it over the years
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18-Part Online Teachers Course - How to be a Great Teacher
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Please do visit our Student Teacher Survival Guide often as we will be continually adding to it.