Primary teaching : learning and teaching in primary schools today / Catherine Carden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: UnderstandingChapter 1: What is teaching?Chapter 2: What is teacher training?Chapter 3: What are the realities of being a teacher in the UK today?Chapter 4: Who are our 21st century children?Chapter 5: What matters in the early years?Chaper 6: How does children's development impact their learning?Chapter 7: How do children learn?Chapter 8: Some global teaching strategies - how can we evaluate them?Chapter 9: Does the curriculum really matter?Chapter 10: How do we teach in the UK today? And how do we want to?Chapter 11: What are we good at anyway? An international comparisonPart 2: Essential prinicples for teachingChapter 13: ProfesionalismChapter 14: PlanningChapter 15: BehaviourChapter 16: Talk and communicationChapter 17: AssessmentChapter 18: SENPart 3: Developing skillsChapter 20: Teaching placementsChapter 21: Your teaching environment inc, classroom managmentChpter 22: Questioning, pace and deliveryChapter 23: Enquiry learningChapter 24: Building relationships with children and parentsChapter 25: Beyond the classroomChapter 26: DifferentiationChapter 27: InclusionChapter 28: Impact and progressChapter 29: Accountability and dataPart 4: Teaching nowChapter 30: Teacher workloadChapter 31: Technology and learningChapter 32: Literacy, books and readingChapter 33: STEMChapter 34: Mastery - breadth and depthChapter 35: A broad and balanced curriculum?Chapter 36: Growth mindsetsPart 5: Building a careerChapter 37: CPDChapter 39: Sharing good practiceChapter 40: ResearchAppendicesTeacher's standards - in fullEquivalents for Wales, Scotland and NIAdvice on writing your ITT assignmentsAdvice on getting your first teaching job

When learning to teach, practical experience in the classroom is as essential as learning from others and being able to reflect on your own learning and performance. Equally important is the ability to critically evaluate learning and teaching. This new, extensive, core text from Learning Matters tackles questions like:

What drives schools and what challenges them?
What can we learn from other countries?
Does curriculum really matter?
How do teachers manage behaviour?
How do I prove that my children are learning?
What does mastery really look like?

Discussing these and many more, it comprehensively covers professional studies modules and goes beyond to support trainees on placements and in their learning on the course.

Learning features throughout have been designed to help students develop their understanding, broaden their perspectives, think more critically and apply theory to practice. These include:

Case Studies to apply learning to real-life school contexts.

Key Readings to encourage wider reading, broaden perspectives and offer practical ideas for the classroom.

Key Theory features introduce and summarise big ideas, theories and research.

Critical Questions direct reflection, help students engage with what their reading and encourage critical responses.

Classroom Links highlight good practice, provide practical ideas and show how to implement these in the classroom.

Assignment features offer helpful points to consider and practical advice for writing assignments on chapter topics, which act as great starting points.

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