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Learning and teaching in the primary classroom
Providing a framework for understanding the individual needs of pupils, this book describes how to tailor teaching methods to maximize learning. Readers will learn how to take account of their pupils′ knowledge, skills and attitudes when selecting and applying principles of instruction, in order to make learning in the classroom as successful as possible. Packed with informative case studies and classroom examples, the book explores how learning is conceptualized, direct instruction, interactive teaching, teaching as scaffolding, and how to overcome obstacles to learning. Readers will learn how to best apply theories of instruction and provide effective, dynamic teaching.
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Developing teacher expertise : exploring key issues in primary practice
\"What are the issues that education raises for you? Beyond the technical skills and knowledge aspects of education, teachers and student teachers face questions which challenge their beliefs and approaches to their teaching and learning. This book contains a series of short articles each of which encourage you to reflect on your own practice and challenge your beliefs about how and what you teach. Questions explored include: When does inclusion become exclusion for the rest of the class? Do interactive whiteboards support or reduce creativity in the classroom? Is drama a luxury in the primary classroom? Should we be teaching other languages to children under seven? Learning outside the classroom, is it worth it? What makes a reflective practitioner? Essential reading for those training to teach children aged between 3 and 11, as well as practicing teachers looking to develop their practice\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Training to teach in primary schools : a practical guide to school-based training and placements
With guidance on adapting to work in school, teaching on placement, securing the first teaching job, and succeeding in the NQT year, this book is a must-have for primary trainees on school experience, whether they are in a school-based or university-based teacher training programme.
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Teaching Britain : elementary teachers and the state of the everyday, 1846-1906
Teaching Britain examines teachers as key agents in the production of social knowledge. Teachers in nineteenth century Britain claimed intimate knowledge of everyday life among the poor and working class at home, and non-white subjects abroad. They mobilized their knowledge in a wide range of media, from accounts of local happenings in their schools' official log books to travel narratives based on summer trips around Britain and the wider world. Teachers also obsessively narrated and reflected on their own careers. Through these stories and the work they did every day, teachers imagined and helped to enact new models of professionalism, attitudes towards poverty and social mobility, ways of thinking about race and empire, and roles for the state. As highly0visible agents of the state and beneficiaries of new state-funded opportunities, teachers also represented the largesse and the reach of the liberal state - but also the limits of both.
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Learning and Teaching in Primary Schools
This is an essential text for all primary trainees, covering the fundamental issues for learning and teaching in primary schools today. It motivates and challenges trainees at the same time as guiding them through the Standards for the Award of QTS. Chapters explore the major themes in teacher education, such as behaviour, communication and creativity, encouraging reflection on key questions and professional dilemmas. In addition, two key chapters provide specific advice to help trainees interpret and fully understand the standards, with strategies for successfully implementing them and demonstrating how each of the standards can be met.
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Classroom Pedagogy and Primary Practice
In this provocative book, David McNamara argues that a `teacher-centred' approch to teaching in the primary school, especially in the later years is actually in the best interests of the children - that the teacher must be seen to have ultimate responsibility for what and how children learn. He attempts to define the distinctive professional expertise of the primary teacher - the application of subject knowledge within the special circumstances of the classroom - and to show how this expertise can be articulated to establish a body of educational knowledge which is both derived from practice and practically useful to others. At a time when increasing emphasis is being placed on the role of the practising teacher as a mentor in intitial teacher education, this book will help teachers at all levels to define their own role in the creation of educational knowledge.
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Politics and the Primary Teacher
Why is primary education so high on the political agenda, and so contentious?
Why is the performance of primary schools so often in the media spotlight?
Why should primary teachers trouble themselves with the politics of their work?
Politics and the Primary Teacher is an accessible introduction to some of the thorniest aspects of a primary teacher's role. It aims to support your understanding of the constant changes in education policy, give you confidence to engage critically with current political debates, and consider how you might shape your response accordingly.
Including questions for reflection, and selected further reading and resources, it examines the complex interface between the work of a teacher and the world beyond the classroom walls. Key issues explored include:
assessment, testing, league tables and national accountability measures
the media's impact in shaping both local and national views about education
political implications of new policies such as academies and free schools
conditions of work in the classroom and 'workforce remodelling'
the curriculum, its purposes and structure
pedagogy and teaching methods
education for citizenship, health and well-being.
Politics and the Primary Teacher is essential reading for all education professionals who want to think more deeply about primary education, what it offers, and how children, families and communities are served by the primary school.
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