Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The heirs of M-Choakumchild– Introduction
2. Some history – How did it ever come to this?
3. - Drowning Not Waving –teaching in an “economically challenged” area”
Autumn
4. Snake Oil – Accelerated Learning a new fad
5. A Local School for Local People – starting a new year
6. Not the Caine Mutiny – the headteacher leaves
7. Guided Reading – a boring LEA training session
8. The stretch limo and Prince Charles’ aide – stars for a day
9. The One-Armed Bandit – some of the odd supply teachers who come into school
10. Brian – a pupil I’ll never forget
11. A normal afternoon – inclusion isn’t working
12. Teaching Awards - not greeted with universal enthusiasm
13. The ICT lesson from hell – a trip out to the local CLC
14. Christmas Lights – the choir sing in town, it pours with rain, and the teaching assistant’s car gets broken into…
Spring
15. Reasons to be Cheerful – songs to lighten the mood
16. This is your flight attendant –classroom assistants as teachers
17. Help! I’m an ICT Co-ordinator – problems with ICT
18. Literacy Planning – another disastrous training event
19. How Miss Perfect Lost Her Smile – Briony can’t quite handle my class
20. I’m Bobby Charlton – P.E.
21. Luminous Green Snot – why teachers take sick leave
22. The Play script – a lesson that went wrong
23. The winding road from Ballysomething – our trip to Ireland
24. Nothing sacks faster – The Woodhead Years as advertising slogans
25. Hello! –ICT awards
26. Ten things that are wrong with the Literacy Hour
27. The File of files – why paperwork is destroying teaching
28. Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer – why they can’t get headteachers
Summer
29. Stressbusters – an unusual staff meeting
30. ‘A quiet rural location’ – what the adverts really mean
31. A consultant calls – someone else who can’t hack my class
32. Let them eat marrow – school dinners
33. Looking down the barrel of a shotgun – our school gets inspected
34. The Heart of Darkness – the problem with SATs
35. The icing on the cake – the TES Newsday
36. Bill’s New Frock – I get to dress up
37. “Are we nearly there yet?”-The School Trip
38. Moving On – the interview that didn’t succeed
39. Recharging the batteries – the end of term
Conclusion
40. The road to Hull …
Author(s)
Mr Read,
Mr.Read is a teacher in Merseyside. He regularly writes in the TES.