Getting the Buggers to Behave - 2 Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi ( 31 December, 2002 ) Book Our Price : £ 12.99 Prices subject to change. usually dispatched within 24 hours.

A dream come true.

Trust me.This will help. An easy read with little jargon and simply heads straight into all the practical advive you would beg for. Cowley gives excelent advice on every aspect of class management. From that kids who walks in late with no intention of settling down to coping with that class on a friday afternoon.Cowley uses all the theory you know to give actural real life examples on how to deal with the tougher aspects of being in a class as well as how to keep the momentum going once things are going well. Ive lent this to 4 other NQTs in the last year and everybody is agreed that this is as helpful as you could wish for and worth re-reading once youve forgotton one or two things too..

Getting the Buggers to behave, behave, behave....

This book has a lot of great reviews and it is, indeed, a decent book for teachers. Im a PGCE student and so I perhaps dont have as much right to judge it. However, my main criticism is with the writing style and lay-out. The book is very repetitive: the same points are brought up over and over again throughout and not really in any more depth than the first time they were mentioned. In one instance, the exact same sentence was used twice on the same page, but with one noun changed. The majority of the advice given is common sense and the topics which had the potential to be very interesting and useful (in my opinion, those connected to the use of body language, psychology and classroon lay-out), are only dealt with very superficially. I understand that this book is only meant as a practical guide, but, considering it is aimed at professionals, it seems to have been dumbed down. Either that or Sue Cowley was stuck for extra material for the second edition (I havent read the first), hence the constant repetition of basic concepts without any expansion. The examples given of a classroom situation and how it could be managed in a good or a bad way, are, although pretty simplistic, somewhat useful... or at least entertaining. All in all, the book contains a few good tips, but in my humble opinion, these could have been written on a single hand-out sheet.

a enlighting book

Not only a funny book and easy to read but it is fill with ideas and ways to help over come misbehaviour of the buggers. As some one just starting teacher training I found it very useful in overcoming that horrid and dreadful moment when steping into the teachering role for the first time. Not only does give the teacher side it also have helpful comments from students. Would make a brillant buy for any one who works with children not just teachers.