The Best Job in the World de Vic Goddard

The Best Job in the World: How to Get the Most Out of Homework Without Really Setting It

Vic Goddard

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2014

Day after day we hear and read about the pressures of being a principal but we really don’t hear enough about the pure joy of it. The journey from trainee or newly qualified teacher to principal can seem to be a long and often treacherous road, with many reasons not to travel it. Vic Goddard shows you that it can be done and it can be done without losing your own passion and moral purpose. Vic shares the pitfalls that he fell into in the hope that you can avoid them and the amazing influences as well as experiences he has picked up on the way.

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Foreword by Ian Gilbert
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part one
1 If I Can Do It, Anyone Can
2 Twitter Chatter
3 The Great TV Experiment
4 The Aftermath
5 ‘I Don’t Want to be a Head Teacher’
6 It’s a Lonely Life, or Is It?
7 Self-Doubt .
8 Change for Change’s Sake?
9 From Government to Governors
10 The Five P’s of Successful Leadership .
11 The Path to Headship

Part two
12 The Gordon Ramsay-Style School Improvement Model
13 The Menu, or Curriculum .
14 Sacking the Head Chef, or Getting the Right People On the Bus Before Deciding Who’s Driving
15 Asking the Customers, or How Do We Provide for the
Community?
16 Painting It White, or Giving the Students the Environment They Deserve
17 Our Ethos
18 Our Vision at Passmores

Recenzii

Vic Goddard speaks from the heart but never fails to use his head. The man who defended his school against the tabloid press now tackles those who snipe at headship without understanding its value, its pressures or its rewards. Teachers need to be leaders. Vic shows them how.
Gerard Kelly, former editor, TES

Working with Vic is a rollercoaster, but one where the designer has missed out the downward bits but has managed to keep in the loops. Vic describes the Passmores’ experience and his centrality to it perfectly. This book captures beautifully how Vic Goddard’s school works. It is a special community to be part of and I was privileged to play my part.
Stephen Drew, head teacher, Brentwood County High School (former deputy head teacher at Passmores Academy)

Chronicling his time as a teacher and head teacher, Vic’s book gives us a unique insight into his career, the decisions he’s made (good and bad) along the way and the reasons behind his ideas and methodology.
Vic’s absolute love for his job is driven by his belief that every child matters and that the impact education has on that child can be life changing.
Tactics on how best to run a school, acknowledging one’s strengths and weaknesses, improving your leadership … this book is a practical guide packed full of personal wisdom.Not only recommended for the teaching profession, but an
inspiring read for anyone interested in making the most of their potential.
We can all learn something from Vic Goddard.
David Clews, head of documentaries, TwoFour

Any teacher wavering over whether or not to take the next step to becoming a school leader will get a confidence boost from Vic Goddard.
As well as providing insight into the school that was the stage for Educating Essex, Vic makes an entertaining case for head teachers to model themselves on a rather different TV success: the celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay (though, hopefully,without quite as much swearing).
Michael Shaw, TES

What I love about The Best Job in the World is its readability. Its narrative pings along at a pace and Vic’s story of his life as a head teacher is compelling. But it’s much more than a reality TV star’s tale – it’s about what it’s like to be a head teacher in England right now and how head teachers like Vic are holding on to their moral purpose amidst tumultuous educational
change. It’s a rollicking good read; as an insight into headship I reckon it’s unrivalled.
John Tomsett, head teacher, Huntington School, York

I loved this book. It is a frank, jargon-free and humane account of headship. Above all, Vic reminds us that schools are so much more than the last exam results or Ofsted grade.
They are infinitely complex places, led by real human beings who carry the weight of everyone else’s expectations. The best job in the world maybe but read this book and be grateful to those who do it.
Fiona Millar, Guardian Education columnist

Notă biografică

Vic Goddard is the Principal of Passmores Academy and star of the BAFTA nominated Channel 4 documentary Educating Essex. He is a proud South Londoner, having been raised on a council estate then going on to train as a PE teacher and eventually becoming the nation’s best-loved Headmaster thanks to his undeniable dedication to his school and the young people inside it.

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I loved this book. It is a frank, jargon-free and humane account of headship.
Fiona Millar, Guardian Education columnist

‘As much as I have been uncomfortable at times through the last two years, it is hard to be anything other than thankful that we did that TV show.’ So says Vic Goddard, describing life after the multi-award-winning TV series Educating Essex, a fly-on-the-wall documentary about life in his Essex comprehensive school. But this isn’t a book about a television series, it’s about being a head teacher fighting tooth and nail to give children the sort of education that will genuinely help them to make something of their lives.

This is a book about running a school, about the purpose of education, about becoming a leader, about family, about love. It’s a book about having the best job in the world.

Vic Goddard speaks from the heart but never fails to use his head. The man who defended his school against the tabloid press now tackles those who snipe at headship without understanding its value, its pressures or its rewards. Teachers need to be leaders. Vic shows them how.
Gerard Kelly, former editor, TES

Vic’s story of his life as a head teacher is compelling. But it’s much more than a reality TV star’s tale – it’s about what it’s like to be a head teacher in England right now and how head teachers like Vic are holding on to their moral purpose amidst tumultuous educational change. It’s a rollicking good read; as an insight into headship I reckon it’s unrivalled.
John Tomsett, head teacher, Huntington School, York

Not only recommended for the teaching profession, but an inspiring read for anyone interested in making the most of their potential. We can all learn something from Vic Goddard.
David Clews, head of documentaries, TwoFour

Any teacher wavering over whether or not to take the next step to becoming a school leader will get a confidence boost from Vic Goddard.
Michael Shaw, TES

This book captures beautifully how Vic Goddard’s school works. It is a special community to be part of and I was privileged to play my part.
Stephen Drew, head teacher, Brentwood County High School
(former deputy head teacher, Passmores Academy)

Vic Goddard is the principal of Passmores Academy and star of the BAFTA-nominated Channel 4 documentary Educating Essex. He is a proud South Londoner, having been raised on a council estate, then going on to train as a PE teacher and eventually becoming the nation’s best-loved head teacher, thanks to his undeniable dedication to his school and the young people within it.

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