Foundations of Primary Teaching

Description

The need to achieve the latest QTS standards for teaching can often stifle innovation and reflective thinking. Written specifically to help guide student teachers through their training, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of teaching within the primary school. It helps student teachers to achieve both the requirements for Qualified Teacher Status, and also a fuller understanding and appreciation of teaching as an evolving and reflective profession through an emphasis on:

• effective relationships and motivation as essential factors in learning
• developing timeless and transferable teaching skills
• reactivating thinking skills
• promoting creativity and innovation within the classroom.

With new material on inclusion, SEN, legal issues, ICT and teaching assistants, this new edition remains essential reading for all student teachers on initial teacher training courses at the primary level.

Reviews

'It is so refreshing to read a book about primary teaching that takes the child, and learning and teaching as its focal points. So often books in this area are so impersonal with their focus on subjects and raising standards.' - Paul Lunn, Northumbria University, UK

Contents

Introduction: Schools are about People Part 1: People in School 1. The Children 2. The Teacher 3. Working with Parents and other Adults Part 2: Learning and Teaching 4. The Process of Learning 5. Planning and Teaching Skills 6. Organising and Managing for Learning 7. Assessment, Recording and Reporting 8. Behaviour Management 9. Inclusion and Special Educational Needs Part 3: Qualified Status 10. The Induction Year Conclusion: The Way Ahead

Author Bio

Denis Hayes is a Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Plymouth, UK

Related Subjects

1. Education
2. Teachers & Teacher Education
3. Education Studies
4. Initial Teacher Training
5. Primary/Elementary Education