I've finally got "Beginning Teaching, Beginning Learning" from eBay and I'm finding it really easy to read, enjoyable and generally very helpful. At the start of each chapter there are 'Cameos' taken from real classroom situations and real experiences of real student teachers. These are interesting and bring the book to life a bit. There's loads of stuff about why we teach the various subjects, as well as how they can be taught.
I've read various opinions that GTPers don't get enough of the background knowledge - not just subject knowledge but also teaching theory - so I thought I'd use my spare hours trying to get ahead a bit.
The only problem with this book that I've found is that it gets me so excited about the prospect of teaching that my mind keeps wandering off to thinking about how I might plan a lesson on story writing and how exciting it'll be to ignite the imagination of a bunch of seven year olds with my incredible lessons! So it's taking me longer to read than normal, but in a good way!
In my current job as a bookseller I've recently moved 'upstairs' and now I manage the education section!!! Excellent - I get paid to hang around the teaching books, read them (obviously it's important know your section well) and order in anything I think looks like it might sell (or that I fancy looking at, borrowing and putting back on the shelf!). In short, this means I'll be doing a few more book reviews on here, in the mean time I'll say that there are loads of Teacher's Resources - lesson plans etc out there, especially for Literacy and Numeracy - and the 'Getting the Buggers to...' series are worth looking at.
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