1st Edition
Become the Primary Teacher Everyone Wants to Have A guide to career success
Preface Acknowledgements A Note on the Author Introduction 1. Getting Ready for Teaching 2. Creating an Atmosphere for Teaching 3. Choosing Ways of Teaching 4. Teaching to Reach All Children 5. Reinforcing Teaching at Home 6. Assessing Learning and Teaching 7. Communicating with Parents and Guardians about Teaching 8. Relating with Colleagues when Teaching 9. Integrating Life, Teaching and Learning Appendix I: Teaching Reading to Children Appendix II: Beginning to Teach Mathematics Appendix III: Setting up for Teaching in early Childhood Education Appendix IV: Independent Study Strategies for Children to Learn Appendix V: Twenty Sample Tasks References
Biography
Seán Delaney spent 11 years teaching in primary schools in Ireland before completing a PhD in Teaching and Teacher Education at the University of Michigan, USA, in 2008. Since then he has held positions as Senior Lecturer (teaching and learning and mathematics education) and Registrar at the Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, Ireland. He presents a weekly radio programme about education on community radio station 103.2 Dublin City FM and blogs at seandelaney.com.
