Michael Parry provides ideas on how to cope with being a supply teacher in a primary school.

Lists range from minor problems such giving rewards and sanctions to how to deal with serious problems such as, bullying and tantrums.

This title contains one hundred ideas for assemblies in the primary school suitable for ages 5 to 11. Some assemblies will be religious and some will be secular, the former will contain stories from many religious traditions. Each assembly will carry an element of surprise, a story or a poem and an element of prayer or reflection.

Supply teaching can be very difficult - if it's not the students that are being difficult it's the permanent members of staff. Michael Parry provides one hundred ideas on how to handle the pitfalls of being a supply teacher in a primary school. The first twenty ideas are practical such as how to act in the staffroom and what equipment is needed to get through the day. The remaining sections each deal with a subject and include ideas such as warm up activities and how to carry on the topic if faced with more than one lesson with a class.

Lesson planning and preparation is one of the most important aspects of teaching. It is also one of the hardest aspects to learn. Student teachers, for example, often find it difficult to gauge how to pitch or pace a lesson. This book provides solutions. It not only provides easily understood practical ideas but also sets them in a coherent overall framework based on the ideas that planning and preparation are part of a total cyclical process involving pedagogy, curriculum, learning and assessment. Planning and preparation are personal matters related to an individual teacher but this does not mean that teachers cannot learn from each other or that thinking about planning and preparation is arbitrary. Coverage includes often neglected areas such as the affective curriculum, language across the curriculum, and homework.

This book is essential reading for any teacher involved with children's development in the primary school. Focusing on primary mathematics the author provides one hundred practical and inspiring ideas for use in the classroom.