Managing the Pressures of Teaching: Practical Ideas for Tutors and Their Students - Hardcover

Cox, Stephen; Heames, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750708360 ISBN 13: 9780750708364

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

A lively, accessible, and practical book of suggestions for ways in which tutors can manage their workloads (and stress levels) and help students manage theirs. The ability to cope with stress is not merely a question of 'making it through the day'. When pressures are managed effectively the need not contribute to the burden of maintaining standards in a time of diminishing resources. resources. Aimed at teachers in further and higher education, it will also be of benefit to school teachers.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard B. Baldauf, Jr., Professor of TESOL, School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia, has published numerous articles in refereed journals and books, is co-author of Language Planning from Practice to Theory (1997), Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin (2003), and Planning Chinese Characters: Evolution, Revolution or Reaction (2008). Robert B. Kaplan, Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Southern California, USA, has published numerous books and refereed articles, is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, member of the editorial board of Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (1992/2003) and editor of the Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics (2002/2010). Nkonko Kamwangamalu, Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Howard University, USA, has published numerous articles in refereed journals and books, is the author of The Language Planning Situation in South Africa (2001), and co-editor of Language and Institutions in Africa (2000). Pauline Bryant, Visiting Fellow, School of Language Studies, Australian National University, has published articles in refereed journals and books on dialect variation in Australia.

Synopsis:

A practical book of suggestions for ways in which teachers can manage their workloads (and stress levels) and help students manage theirs. Coping with stress can be viewed not only as a method for "making it through the day" but also as an aid to maintaining quality at a time of diminsihing resources. Aimed at teachers in further and higher education, it should also be of benefit to school teachers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0750708360
• ISBN 13: 9780750708364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 150