Laura-Jane Fisher provides one hundred ideas on how to survive the first year of teaching. This book deals with a wide range of issues from coping with the long working hours and managing difficult classes to lesson planning and writing reports for the first time.

Laura-Jane Fisher teaches English and Drama at a Bradford Comprehensive school.

Introduction
1. Finishing off your training
2. Preparation
3. First week
4. The support system
5. Classroom management
6. Reality of being a teacher
7. Life as a teacher
8. The new kid of the block
9. The eternal student
10. One year down another 44 to go