This book is for newly qualified teachers who are about to start teaching in secondary school, though it will also be of interest to teachers in their first year in school. It charts the next steps in teaching, from finishing the teacher training program, through the first year, and into the comparatively settled routine of the second and third years of teaching.
The books aims to:
* Help orient the teacher through the pitfalls of teaching
* Describe some of the challenges and difficulties teachers might face in the classroom and provide advice based on the experiences of other teachers
* Describe the successful strategies new teachers have used to develop teaching
* Highlight the satisfaction of teaching.

Part 1. Preface. Part 2. Looking Back: Looking Forward. Part 3. First Year in Teaching: Getting Accepted Again. Part 4. First Year in Teaching: Opportunities to Become a Better Teacher. Part 5. Second Year of Teaching: A Comfort Zone? Part 6. Third Year of Teaching: New Challenges. Part 7. Why Teach?: A Reappraisal.