Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-206) and index.

Your legal and professional requirements -- Researching your pupils' and the school's backgrounds -- Preparing your classroom -- Exploring the Ofsted report -- Lesson planning and preparing your resources -- Getting your subject knowledge up to date -- Avoiding conflict -- Achieving consistency in behaviour management -- Introducing pace and purpose into lessons without leaving any students behind -- Working collaboratively with teaching assistants -- Making the school environment a positive and safe place to be -- Personalising learning and multiple intelligences -- Creating a broad and balanced curriculum -- Integrating new pupils into the class -- Reacting to unexpected behaviour and events -- The challenging class -- Establishing and retaining good pupil-teacher relations -- Moral development of pupils -- Making use of "wait time" -- Regulating noise levels -- Juggling the demands of the job -- Communicating the aims and objectives of the lesson and setting targets -- Teaching life skills -- When, where and how to seek help without losing face -- Making decisions -- Parental engagement.