This book is intended for new classroom teachers, including licensed and articled teachers, and those who advise and train them. The section on initial encounters with groups will be valuable to many others who have the same need as teachers to show authority, such as youth group workers and playground supervisors.

The first edition of Teacher Appraisal offered a comprehensive and practical guide to what has become a key area in educational management in the UK. The second edition has been substantially updated to include the regulations as they affect grant-maintained schools and developments in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Student teachers have always worked with professionals during their teaching practice, but as teacher training becomes more school based, the role of the mentor has become much more important. Even newer is the emergence of the subject mentor. This book is an examination of the nature of effective mentoring and its contribution to student teacher development.

This book is a revised edition of the highly successful 1997 edition, which has established itself as the reference guide for trainee teachers of modern foreign languages in the UK. Recent changes in legislation and education policy are included and further useful ideas and strategies have been included. ICT is dealt with in a separate chapter as well as referred to throughout the book.

The authors draw on their considerable experience of teacher training and research into classrooms to explore several dimensions of teaching. They show how teachers can improve their competence and meet their aspirations, both individually and with their colleagues. Effective Teaching will be very useful to trainee and experienced teachers, deans, teacher educators and assessors.