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Hints and Tips

Your probation period can be supported in a number of ways and we've collected hints and tips to do just that.

The tips cover the range of issues you'll need to consider to ensure your time in the classroom is effective and successful:

  • Starting out tips show how doing a little homework of your own can prepare you for new challenges.
  • Behaviour management tips will help you gain and keep control.
  • In the classroom tips cover areas ranging from knowing where your learning tools are to what is expected of you in the classroom.
  • Around the school tips cover life outside the classroom.
  • Job Hunting tips help to get you thinking and planning for looking for a job in teaching.
  • End of term has a different 'vibe' to the rest of the year and these tips help you address the needs of these periods, for you and your pupils.
  • Top Tips For Teachers, GTC Scotland's first ever book, covers all sorts of tricks of the trade to help you cope with pupils, parents and the ever-lasting pile of marking.

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