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The Trainee Teachers' Survival Guide
By Hazel Bennett
continuum Pounds 14.99
The Essential Guide to Teaching
By Susan Davies
Pearson Pounds 12.99
Reading The Trainee Teachers' Survival Guide is like having an extremely experienced, knowledgeable and wise mentor who knows the ropes and is more than happy to pass their experience on to you. In other words, the kind of mentor you rarely get in real life.
From the nicely pitched opening paragraphs on "why be a teacher", neither too starry-eyed nor too off-putting, to the exhaustive and rather terrifying advice on how to fulfil the Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status in England, Hazel Bennett uses all of her 30-plus years' experience to provide sane, sensible and calm advice.
Whether it's reassuring words about mock-up lessons in college ("some students find this...