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Inspiring Primary Learners: Insights and Inspiration Across the Curriculum book cover

1st Edition

Inspiring Primary Learners Insights and Inspiration Across the Curriculum

Edited By Roger McDonald, Poppy Gibson Copyright 2021
342 Pages 73 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 73 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 73 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Inspiring Primary Learners offers trainee and qualified teachers high-quality case studies of outstanding practice in contemporary classrooms across the country. Expert authors unravel and reveal the theory and evidence that underpins lessons, helping you make connections with your own practice and understand what ‘excellent’ looks like, within each context, and how it is achieved.... Read more

Part 1: The primary curriculum

  1. Empowering communication through speaking, reading and writing

    2.

    Deborah Reynolds, Sarah Smith and Kat Vallely

  2. A Teaching for Mastery Approach – Primary Mathematics

    3.

    Gemma Parker

  3. Science: Children as inventors

    4.

    Adewale Magaji, Lorraine Smith and Michelle Best

  4. How ‘messiness’ in Design and Technology can inspire creative teaching and learning

    5.

    James Archer and Rachel Linfield

  5. Putting the human back into the Humanities

    6.

    Alison Hales

  6. Painting a Canvas of Creativity

    7.

    Ashley Brett

  7. Music: Composing, Performing, Listening and Structuring (all without fear)

    8.

    Mark Betteney and Kay Charlton

  8. Physical Education and Health Education

    9. Kristy Howells

  9. Computational thinking and technology enhanced learning (TEL): the power of computing in the primary classroom.

    10. Poppy Gibson and Megan Brown

  10. Inspiración y oportunidad: purpose and strategies for teaching Modern Foreign Languages in the primary classroom

    11.

    Poppy Gibson and Talia Ramadan

  11. Religious Education – a creative freedom to teach innovatively

    12.

    Robert Morgan

    Part 2: Wider issues and debates

  12. Relationships and Sex Education

    13.

    Richard Woolley and Sacha Mason

  13. Reading for Pleasure

    14.

    Roger McDonald

  14. Writing for Pleasure

    15.

    Ross Young & Felicity Ferguson

  15. Creating a Dynamic and Responsive Curriculum

    16.

    Janet Morris and Rachel Wolfendale

  16. Creating inspiring displays

    17.

    Anthony Barlow

  17. Outdoor learning

    18.

    Michelle Best, Adewale Magaji and Lorraine Smith

  18. Pedagogy for imagination

Roger McDonald

Biography

Roger McDonald is an Associate Professor at the University of Greenwich and has extensive experience in the primary classroom as a practitioner. Roger is also President Elect of the United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA).

Poppy Gibson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, and programme lead of the accelerated BA (Hons) in Primary Education Studies.

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