Top Tips for Teachers

About the Book: 

Whether you're already in command of a classroom, or are just starting out as a student teacher, these top tips will help you cope with pupils, parents and the everlasting pile of marking. Alternately practical, wise and funny, Top Tips for Teachers will guide you through those career-defining moments: parents evenings, negotiating the staffroom and help you preserve your dignity when all you want to do is hurl chalk at the board.

Teaching can be a rewarding vocation allowing you to get to know your pupils and guide them into their future. This book will keep you organised, calm and motivated until the summer holidays. It contains witty illustrations by Bob Dewar, one of the UK's top satirical artists.

About the Author:

GLENISE BORTHWICK enlisted in the teaching profession in 1979 armed with a teaching certificate from Jordanhill as well as a Diploma in Education from Glasgow University and a degree in English and Communications. She joined the English Department at Vale of Leven Academy in West Dunbartonshire, where she quickly learned that having a sense of humour is sometimes the only thing that gets teachers and pupils through the school day. She became a full-time trade union convener for teachers in West Dunbartonshire, then moved to Edinburgh and joined the General Teaching Council for Scotland, initially as their Investigating Officer, and then Communications Officer. She is now Head of Communications with the Council and editor-in-chief of Teaching Scotland.

BOB DEWAR was born in Edinburgh at an early age. 16 years later he was published nationally. He worked in D.C. Thomson’s studio where, among other things, he ghosted Dennis the Menace. After going freelance, he did political and social commentary for The Scotsman newspaper. He has illustrated books for the children’s and English Speaking Departments of Oxford University Press, Fife Educational Social Development, A&C Black and many Scottish publishers – Birlinn, Luath, Black & White and Itchy Coo. His work has also appeared in The Times, The Herald, Scottish Field and The Scotch Malt Whisky Society.