This title discusses: why people choose to become teachers; the changing efforts to reform teacher education; and the factors that have not been considered when developing teacher-training programmes.

You Are Thinking of Teaching? is a lovely essay on the consideration of teachin. It asks those who are thinking of teaching to ask questions, to ponder their decision, and to pursue the information they need to make a reasoned choice. There is nothing like it in the professional literature, which makes it all the more valuable.?Pat Walsey, senior researcher for change, Coalition of Essential Schools

1. Justifying this Book. 2. Who Is "You" 3. When Should You Decide? 4. Why Teaching?. 5. Satisfaction from Student and Parents. 6. Satisfaction from Colleagues. 7. You Know More than You Think and More than They Give You Credit for. 8. The Teacher of Whom? 9. Change, Resistance, and Reflection. 10. Understanding Children and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. 11. The Nonreading Professional.