Addresses the issues important to supply teachers and identifies the skills necessary for handling the demands they face. This book tackles the challenges of dealing with new classes, managing challenging student behaviour, working with new groups of students and colleagues, and receiving the professional status deserving of the role.

Bill Rogers addresses the issues important to supply teachers (substitute teachers) and identifies the skills necessary for handling the demands they face.

Many newly qualified teachers gain their first experience on short-term contracts or, with the rise of teaching agencies, as supply teachers. This book offers advice and help to those wishing to take up temporary teaching work, and provides an outline of the opportunities and requirements of supply teaching. It gives

What does it really take to become a brilliant teacher? As a supply teacher you will be faced with the unfamiliar. You may find yourself in a school that you have never been to before. The students may be strangers to you … and you to them, of course; subjects

Pressure on teachers is increasing. Bureaucrats, economists, parent groups and students are all placing extra emphasis on teacher accountability and performance. Adding to this pressure are rising concerns about student behaviour. This difficult problem is having a marked effect on the stress levels and self-esteem of teachers. As more schools