What does it really take to become a brilliant teacher?

Award-winning teacher Kevin Harcombe draws on his 24 years in the classroom to help build your confidence through enlightening and reassuring advice and case studies taken directly from the chalkface. This book will become the companion you need to teach engaging lessons with impact, plan and assess effectively and focus on your career prospects and development.

Learn how to work with colleagues to achieve results and build a positive environment for learning in your classroom, whilst focusing on what you can do become an outstanding teacher.

BRILLIANT OUTCOMES

• Help all the learners in your classroom succeed through inclusive practice
• Listen to pupil voice to become a better classroom practitioner
• Shape your own future and think about the next steps in your teaching career whilst maintaining a work-life balance

Introduction

1 Getting the job

2 Working with colleagues

3 Brilliant learning

4 Working with different abilities

5 Achieving brilliant behaviour

6 Parent power and the power of parents

7 Standards

8 Pupil voice: without scaring the teachers

9 Keeping safe

10 Lesson observation

11 'But I haven't got time to sort out my work-life balance!'

12 Shaping your own future