The Confident Teacher

The Confident Teacher: Developing successful habits of mind, body and pedagogy

by Alex Quigley

The Confident Teacher offers a practical, step-by-step guide to developing the habits, characteristics and pedagogy that will enable you to do the best job possible.

It unveils the tacit knowledge of great teachers and combines it with respected research and popular psychology. Covering topics such as organisation, using your body language effectively, combatting stress, managing student behaviour, questioning and feedback, and developing confident students, it shows how you can build the confidence and skill to flourish in the classroom.

This book will be an essential resource for all qualified and trainee teachers wanting to reach their full potential in this challenging but rewarding profession.

CONTENTS
Section 1: The Confident Mind
2. How Much Confidence is Enough?
3. Developing Self-confidence
4. The Pursuit of Expertise
5: The Productive Teacher

Section 2: Our Confident Body
Our Confident Body – Introduction
Combatting stress
The Performance of Teaching
Managing Student Behaviour

Section 3: Confident Pedagogy
10. Confident Pedagogy – Introduction
11. Exemplary Explanations
12. Confident Questioning and Feedback
13. Successful Modelling and Metacognition
14. Memory for Learning

Section 4: Confident Learners
15. Confident Learners

"Alex Quigley has a remarkable gift to bring together the latest research with real classroom experiences. This book is carefully researched and completely accessible. He not only provides helpful advice for teachers but also for school leaders. How can we create a new generation of successful and confident teachers? This book has some great answers." - David Weston, author
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