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List of contents
Acknowledgements. Setting the Scene. 1 Mike, Aged 5 Sequel 1 Religious Education Garth Read Sequel 2 Good Talk Sequel 3 Teacher Training Tasks 2 Rashda, Aged 6 Sequel 1 Teaching English to Bilingual Children Jean Mills Sequel 2 Real Reading Liz Waterland Sequel 3 Teacher Training Tasks 3 David, Aged 7 Sequel 1 Theories of Learning Roy Cook Sequel 2 Special Educational Needs Ian Petrie Sequel 3 Teacher Training Tasks 4 Lucy, Aged 8 Sequel 1 Suggested Fiction Keith Barker Sequel 2 Ten Strategies for Story Barrie Wade Sequel 3 5 Lorraine Aged 9 Sequel 1 School Assemblies Rachel Gregory Sequel 2 Maths Teaching Lorna Ridgway Sequel 3 Teacher Training Tasks 6 Peter Aged 10 Sequel 1 Primary Science Mary Comber Sequel 2 Classroom Organization and Teaching Observation Sequel 3 Teacher Training Tasks. Bibliography and Further Reading. Name Index. Index.
About the author
Richard Mills
Summary
In a sequence of observations of six children aged 5-11 in six different state schools this book offers a slice of classroom life, a microcosm of the educational scene. Since the book was first written there have been many changes in the curriculum, structure, governance and funding of British primary schools, as well as in the language used to describe these changes. But Observing Children in the Primary Classroom remains as valid now as earlier, as a lively and entertaining indicator of children’s daily school experience. We see the reception class of an infants’ school through the eyes of Mike, a lively five-year-old traveller boy. Six-year-old Rashda, a girl of Asian heritage, grapples with English as a Second Language at her multi-ethnic city school. Slow-learner David finds school life rather overpowering, despite receiving expert extra help. Lucy, eight, is a star in everything she does at her Roman Catholic school, while Lorraine, one year older, is cheerful but utterly bewildered. Finally, Peter, organises his work in an open-plan setting and makes some surprising choices.
