Practical Tips for Teachers in Melanesia

Teacher training institutions at all levels spend so much time drilling the trainees on what to teach and how to teach, they often forget that the first year teacher's most immediate questions are concerned with how to survive and succeed in the classroom.

Practical Tips for Teachers in Melanesia is an introductory survival guide for student teachers and beginner teachers seeking appointment in schools and vocational, technical and health education institutions. In twelve chapters, the author draws on his own experience to illustrate some of the difficulties that beginner teachers are likely to encounter in their first year of teaching.

• Beginner teachers will find this book a source of information and advice before they take up their first appointment.
• For first year teachers, this book will serve as an immediate point of reference when confronted with certain situations in the classroom.
• Student teachers at college can use this book as a complementary text in their skills and methods of professional development courses. It also contains many helpful tips on how to present lessons successfully. Much of what the college or university supervisors expect of a student teacher is skillfully covered in this book.
• Practising teachers, in-service co-ordinators and school administrators will also find this book very useful to bounce off ideas for professional discussions and in-service courses at the school level.

This book will be of much value to anyone who is interested in taking up teaching as a career.