Guerrilla Tactics for Teachers is a life-saving, career-preserving, sanity-building guide for teachers. Based on over 30 years of research, it is an essential collection of behaviour management and learning enhancement strategies that will help educators at any stage of their career.
These are the methods that will help educators create and maintain calm classrooms that enable students to learn effectively, achieve great results, and still have a life. It provides the secret knowledge of survival in a sector that loses many great teachers to other careers when they decide it is too hard and walk away.
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Introduction
Chapter 1 Starting well: An opportunity for madness or serenity
Chapter 2 The 10 most powerful ways to manage classrooms
Chapter 3 Keeping your cool and your stuff together
Chapter 4 Managing tricky students and increasing motivation
Chapter 5 Gang leadership and guerrilla dynamics for teachers
Chapter 6 Wheeling and dealing
Chapter 7 Time making
Chapter 8 Curating great learning experiences
Chapter 9 Extracting miraculously good marks
Chapter 10 Keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs
Chapter 11 What do I do when students …
Chapter 12 The best guerrilla tactic of all
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Andrew Fuller has recently been described as an ‘interesting mixture of Billy Connolly, Tim Winton and Frasier Crane’ and as someone who ‘puts the heart back into psychology’. As a clinical psychologist, he works with many schools and communities in Australia and internationally, specialising in the well-being of young people and their families. Andrew Fuller is a Fellow of the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Learning and Educational Development at the University of Melbourne.