Full Description
This textbook provides a wide-ranging overview of everything you will need to know to prepare you for initial teacher training and your early career in the primary classroom.Covering practical issues including planning, assessment and classroom organisation, and thought-provoking topics such as reflecting on your own teaching practice and developing critical thinking skills, this textbook gives you a pragmatic and insightful understanding of teaching in primary schools.This third edition has been comprehensively revised to include new chapters on:Personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE)Safeguarding and your responsibilitiesTeaching EAL learnersBehaviour management and encouraging behaviour for learningInclusion and special educational needs, including the 2015 SEND Code of PracticeCritical perspectives on fundamental British valuesMoving on to Master's level studyThis is essential reading for all students on primary initial teacher education courses including university-based (PGCE, BEd, BA with QTS), and schools-based (School Direct, SCITT, Teach First) routes into teaching.
Contents
Introduction - Hilary Cooper and Sally Elton-ChalcraftPart 1: Introduction to Professional StudiesChapter 1: History of Education - Susan Shaw and Ian ShirleyChapter 2: Philosophy of Education and Theories of Learning - Hilary CooperChapter 3: Short-, Medium- and Long-term Planning - Kim Harris and Suzanne LoweChapter 4: Assessment - Kim Harris and Suzanne LoweChapter 5: Classroom Organisation and the Learning Environment - Jan Ashbridge and Jo JosephidouChapter 6: The Role of the Teacher and Other Adults - Jan Ashbridge and Jo JosephidouPart 2: Inclusive Dimensions of Professional StudiesChapter 7: Reflective Practice in the Early Years: Provision for 3- to 5-Year-Olds in School - Lin Savage and Anne RenwickChapter 8: Inclusion and Special Educational Needs - Sue SoanChapter 9: Behaviour for Learning - Simon Ellis and Janet TodChapter 10: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) - Richard PalmerChapter 11: Safeguarding - Nicky Batty and Jayne MetcalfeChapter 12: Language and Learning in a Multilingual World - Jean ContehChapter 13: Dialogical, Enquiry and Participatory Approaches to Learning - Donna Hurford and Chris RowleyChapter 14: Race, Culture and Ethnicity Teaching in Post-European Times - Diane Warner and Sally Elton-ChalcraftChapter 15: Fundamental British Values - Sally Elton-Chacroft, Lynn Revell and Vini LanderPart 3: From Trainee to TeacherChapter 16: 'Learning Teaching' in School - Pete BoydChapter 17: Reflective Practice - Andrew ReadChapter 18: Statutory Professional Responsibilities - Nerina DiazChapter 19: Moving on to Master's Level - Carol Darbyshire, Sue Harrop and Vicky DuckworthChapter 20: Moving Forward - Hilary Cooper
