Primary teaching : learning and teaching in primary schools today / edited by Catherine Carden. - xviii, 685 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes index.

Part 1: UnderstandingChapter 1: What is teaching?Chapter 2: What is teacher training?Chapter 3: What are the realities of being a teacher in the UK today?Chapter 4: Who are our 21st century children?Chapter 5: What matters in the early years?Chaper 6: How does children's development impact their learning?Chapter 7: How do children learn?Chapter 8: Some global teaching strategies - how can we evaluate them?Chapter 9: Does the curriculum really matter?Chapter 10: How do we teach in the UK today? And how do we want to?Chapter 11: What are we good at anyway? An international comparisonPart 2: Essential prinicples for teachingChapter 13: ProfesionalismChapter 14: PlanningChapter 15: BehaviourChapter 16: Talk and communicationChapter 17: AssessmentChapter 18: SENPart 3: Developing skillsChapter 20: Teaching placementsChapter 21: Your teaching environment inc, classroom managmentChpter 22: Questioning, pace and deliveryChapter 23: Enquiry learningChapter 24: Building relationships with children and parentsChapter 25: Beyond the classroomChapter 26: DifferentiationChapter 27: InclusionChapter 28: Impact and progressChapter 29: Accountability and dataPart 4: Teaching nowChapter 30: Teacher workloadChapter 31: Technology and learningChapter 32: Literacy, books and readingChapter 33: STEMChapter 34: Mastery - breadth and depthChapter 35: A broad and balanced curriculum?Chapter 36: Growth mindsetsPart 5: Building a careerChapter 37: CPDChapter 39: Sharing good practiceChapter 40: ResearchAppendicesTeacher's standards - in fullEquivalents for Wales, Scotland and NIAdvice on writing your ITT assignmentsAdvice on getting your first teaching job

This book includes full coverage of the content of professional studies modules and goes beyond to support trainees on placements and in their learning on the course.


College of Education Bachelor of Elementary Education Grade School Junior High School


Text in English

9781526436443 (pbk)

2018950474


Education, Elementary.
Elementary school teaching.

372 P93 2019