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This textbook provides a wide-ranging overview of everything you will need to know to prepare you for initial teacher training and your early career in the primary classroom.
Covering practical issues including planning, assessment and classroom organisation, and thought-provoking topics such as reflecting on your own teaching practice and developing critical thinking skills, this textbook gives you a pragmatic and insightful understanding of teaching in primary schools.
This third edition has been comprehensively revised to include new chapters on:
- Personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE)
- Safeguarding and your responsibilities
- Teaching EAL learners
- Behaviour management and encouraging behaviour for learning
- Inclusion and special educational needs, including the 2015 SEND Code of Practice
- Critical perspectives on fundamental British values
- Moving on to Master s level study
This is essential reading for all students on primary initial teacher education courses including university-based (PGCE, BEd, BA with QTS), and schools-based (School Direct, SCITT, Teach First) routes into teaching.
List of contents
Introduction - Hilary Cooper and Sally Elton-Chalcraft
Part 1: Introduction to Professional Studies
Chapter 1: History of Education - Susan Shaw and Ian Shirley
Chapter 2: Philosophy of Education and Theories of Learning - Hilary Cooper
Chapter 3: Short-, Medium- and Long-term Planning - Kim Harris and Suzanne Lowe
Chapter 4: Assessment - Kim Harris and Suzanne Lowe
Chapter 5: Classroom Organisation and the Learning Environment - Jan Ashbridge and Jo Josephidou
Chapter 6: The Role of the Teacher and Other Adults - Jan Ashbridge and Jo Josephidou
Part 2: Inclusive Dimensions of Professional Studies
Chapter 7: Reflective Practice in the Early Years: Provision for 3- to 5-Year-Olds in School - Lin Savage and Anne Renwick
Chapter 8: Inclusion and Special Educational Needs - Sue Soan
Chapter 9: Behaviour for Learning - Simon Ellis and Janet Tod
Chapter 10: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) - Richard Palmer
Chapter 11: Safeguarding - Nicky Batty and Jayne Metcalfe
Chapter 12: Language and Learning in a Multilingual World - Jean Conteh
Chapter 13: Dialogical, Enquiry and Participatory Approaches to Learning - Donna Hurford and Chris Rowley
Chapter 14: Race, Culture and Ethnicity Teaching in Post-European Times - Diane Warner and Sally Elton-Chalcraft
Chapter 15: Fundamental British Values - Sally Elton-Chacroft, Lynn Revell and Vini Lander
Part 3: From Trainee to Teacher
Chapter 16: 'Learning Teaching' in School - Pete Boyd
Chapter 17: Reflective Practice - Andrew Read
Chapter 18: Statutory Professional Responsibilities - Nerina Diaz
Chapter 19: Moving on to Master's Level - Carol Darbyshire, Sue Harrop and Vicky Duckworth
Chapter 20: Moving Forward - Hilary Cooper
Summary
Covering practical issues including planning, assessment and classroom organisation, and thought-provoking topics such as reflecting on teaching practice and developing critical thinking skills, this textbook gives readers a pragmatic and insightful understanding of teaching in primary schools.
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"This new edition of a major textbook provides an amazingly comprehensive account of the key issues that beginning teachers should be considering and will help them to develop their own professional judgement. It is full of fascinating illustrative material that will engage and excite all those committed to becoming teachers who are determined to make a positive impact on children's learning.
Ian Menter 20170908
