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Informationen zum Autor Roger Merry taught for six years before going into teacher training, first in Birmingham and then at Leicester University, where he was head of the biggest Primary PGCE course in the country. Apart from academic publications he has published stories and learning materials for children, all of which were tried out initially on his two long-suffering children. Klappentext * What do we now know about how children learn? * How can teachers come to understand the processes of successful teaching better? * How can we apply an improved understanding of successful teaching and learning realistically, given the constraints of the primary context? For many years, there has been a gap between the work of psychologists carrying out studies in the laboratory, and teachers working in classrooms. More recently, as the public demands on teachers have increased, psychologists are becoming more interested in learning in 'real' settings, and are recognizing the importance of classroom situations and children's attitudes. Each chapter in this book encourages teachers to reflect on their own thinking as well as on children's learning, and offers ways in which some recent ideas from psychology can realistically be taken up by busy teachers. The first chapter discusses the limitations of behavioural competencies, and the following two chapters look at children's thinking, learning and development. Chapters four and five consider the importance of attitudes and the social context of the classroom while the final chapter offers an overall view of successful teaching and learning in successful contexts. Zusammenfassung Encourages teachers to reflect on their own thinking as well as on children's learning! and offers ways in which some ideas from psychology can realistically be taken up by busy teachers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Competencies and corsets successful teaching and learning in the classroom Teaching, learning and Napoleon's socks cognition and success Cognitive development, teaching and the 'P' word Success, attitudes and the obsessive margin drawer Donald Duck, Hitler and Adam and Eve the social context of success Successful teaching and learning References Index. ...
