A practical handbook for newly appointed school teachers in Sri Lanka, written in Sinhala by D. C. de Silva and published in Colombo by Godage. The title translates as "for novice teachers", and that is precisely who it addresses: someone who has just received a first appointment and is walking into a classroom, and a staffroom, for the first time.
The book is organised as a sequence of chapters that follow the shape of that early career. They cover:
- The first appointment
- Entering into subject teaching
- Planning teaching
- Teaching methods
- Instructional objectives
- Evaluation and assessment
- Preparing a question paper
- Empowering the novice teacher
- Becoming aware of the official working environment
- A teacher's interpersonal relationships
The run of topics shows the book's bearing. It moves from the mechanics of classroom work — lesson planning, method, stating what a lesson is meant to achieve, assessing whether it did, setting a question paper — outward to the parts of the job that are not teaching at all: the administrative environment a government school teacher operates within, and the working relationships with colleagues, pupils and parents that come with the post. The National Library of Sri Lanka catalogues it under the subject heading of teaching.
Please note that this book is written entirely in Sinhala. There is no English text. It will be readable only by those with Sinhala literacy, and is intended primarily for teachers working within the Sri Lankan school system, where the terminology of appointments, assessment and school administration is specific to that context.
Godage International Publishers is an established Colombo house publishing in Sinhala and English across education, literature, history and reference. Titles of this kind — written for a particular professional readership inside Sri Lanka — circulate mainly through the local trade and are not easy to come across outside the country.
It will be of most use to trainee and newly qualified teachers, to those supervising or mentoring them, and to anyone reading in Sinhala on teacher education and classroom practice in Sri Lanka. Readers abroad with a scholarly interest in Sri Lankan education may also find value in it as an account of what the profession asks of its newest entrants.
- Author: D. C. de Silva
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 168
- ISBN: 9789553075857
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