Product reviews for How To Teach

Phil Beadle - both credible and subversive - knows what works in classrooms, and how to explain it to others in a supportive and reassuring style. In this book he ranges across the whole spectrum of the teacher's work, dealing first, at length, with the new recruit's number-one priority - management of students. Here, and throughout, there's welcome emphasis on respect for young people and on authority delivered with compassion and understanding. Along the way, Beadle also aims to entertain, and if the humour is a bit relentless, well, maybe that's a generation thing on my part and in any case you don't have to read the whole book in one go.