Learning to Teach in the Primary School

How can you become an effective primary school teacher? What do you need to be able to do? What do you need to know? Flexible, effective and creative primary school teachers require subject knowledge, an understanding of their pupils and how they learn, a range of strategies for managing behaviour and organising environments for learning, and the ability to respond to dynamic classroom situations. This second edition of "Learning to Teach in the Primary School", fully updated since the introduction of the QTS standards, provides valuable support to trainee teachers during both the taught component and the school placement element of their initial teacher education course. It provides an accessible and engaging introduction to teaching and learning that every student teacher needs to acquire in order to gain Qualified Teacher Status, as well as the underlying theory. Written by experts in primary school teaching, this edition is divided into 37 units each covering essential concepts and skills, including: approaching planning understanding early years practice; new assessment for learning e-learning; new inclusive approaches personalised learning and pupil voice NEW research and further qualifications; new responding to ethnic diversity and gender differences teaching modern foreign languages; and, new professional standards of teaching working with others. Each unit offers a range of learning activities for trainee teachers in the form of tasks. Masters Level challenges - new to this edition - and annotated lists of further reading are provided for those who want to explore topics in more detail. This comprehensive textbook is essential reading for all students training to be primary school teachers, including those on undergraduate teacher training courses (BEd, BA with QTS, BSc with QTS), postgraduate teacher training courses (PGCE, SCITT), and employment-based teacher training courses (GTP, RTP, Teach First), plus those studying Education Studies.

ISBN 0415487900   Pages 544 ISBN13 9780415487900 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1044 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Previous ISBN 9780415359283 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 246 Publication date 29 Mar 2010   Width (mm) 189 DEWEY 372.241   Academic level Postgraduate, Undergraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		List of illustrations
		List of tasks
		List of contributors
		Acknowledgements
		Introduction by Teresa Cremin		1
1		Becoming A Teacher		7
1.1		Primary teaching: a personal perspective by Colin Richards		8
		áAcrostic' teaching
		A sense of style
		Teaching: science, craft or art?
		Enactive, pre-active and post-active primary teaching
		The personal qualities and knowledge required of primary teachers
		The purposes of primary teaching
		The importance of primary teaching
1.2		Professionalism and trainee teachers by Denis Hayes		18
		Standards for trainee teachers
		QTS standards for professional attributes: relationships with children, frameworks, communicating and working with others
		Evidence of success: checklist for professional attributes
2		Exploring the Nature of Learning and Teaching		29
2.1		Child development by Sandra Smidt		30
		Child development: what is it and why does it matter?
		Some key figures
		Some current and recent research: neuroscience, the Researching Effective Pedagogy in the Early Years (REPEY) project, the Cambridge Primary Review, the Early Years Foundation Stage, the Children's Plan (2008)
		The implications of all this
2.2		Looking at learning by David Wray		41
		Approaches to learning: behaviourism, constructivism, social constructivism
		More...

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