Teaching isn't all about teaching, new teachers quickly realize that they need to be lion tamers too. This title tells teachers what the teacher training didn't, and offers strategies for dealing with the common, and extreme, classroom scenarios. It helps teachers, old and new, to assert their authority in the classroom.

Teaching isn't all about teaching; new teachers quickly realise that they need to be lion tamers too. Controlling a class isn't something that comes naturally to everyone - but it can be learned.



This no-nonsense guide tells teachers what the teacher training didn't, and offers instant strategies for dealing with the most common, and extreme, classroom scenarios.



Using his experiences of teaching in inner-city schools, as Behaviour Guru on the TES advice forum and working as a nightclub bouncer, Tom Bennett helps teachers, old and new, to assert their authority in the classroom.

'This is a very good book indeed, both timely and necessary.... Bennett writes with humour, style, understanding, a massive amount of common sense and not a little wisdom.  And how often do you use those words in an educational context?'