1st Edition

Primary Teaching Skills

By E. C. Wragg, E. C. Wragg Copyright 1993
220 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Primary teachers have always been required to master a wealth of knowledge and professional skills and recent debate has led to pressure for ever higher levels of competence. Ted Wragg's book provides a comprehensive guide to the skills needed by today's primary teachers. Separate chapters cover such central demands of the job as explaining new topics, asking stimulating questions and settling... Read more
Preface Acknowledgements 1 Skilful teaching 2 The management of teaching 3 First encounters with a class 4 Systematic studies of class management 5 Managing children’s behaviour and work 6 Supply teachers 7 Pupils’ views of management 8 Explaining and explanations 9 Teachers’ questions 110 Teachers’ subject knowledge 11 Student teachers’ professional skills 12 Training skilful teachers

Biography

E.C.Wragg is Director of the School of Education at the University of Exeter and Co-director (with Neville Bennett) of the Leverhulme Primary Project. His publications include Classroom Teaching Skills (Routledge 1989) and three workbooks for the Leverhulme Primary Project Classroom Skills series: Class Management, Explaining and Questioning (Routledge 1993).