Training to teach or a newly qualified teacher in a primary school?
The Essential Guide to Primary Teaching contains everything you need to help you become an effective and confident teaching professional.
The highly practical focus, coupled with an insight into the theory and thinking behind the practices you find in schools today, make this an invaluable resource, not just in your first few years in the post, but as a companion guide long into your teaching career.
Written by an award-winning teacher with over 30 years’ experience, this guide provides an insight into new educational initiatives and theories, bringing you up-to-date with current educational thinking. It is packed with practical information, teaching tips and tried and tested advice on issues such as:
- How to plan differentiated lessons
- How to manage the behaviour of your pupils
- How to use data effectively to track the progress of your pupils and set meaningful targets
- How to mark effectively and manage your time
- How to manage an area of responsibility in your school
- How to apply for jobs and manage your own professional development
Product Description
Training to teach or a newly qualified teacher in a primary school?
The Essential Guide to Primary Teaching contains everything you need to help you become an effective and confident teaching professional.
The highly practical focus, coupled with an insight into the theory and thinking behind the practices you find in schools today, make this an invaluable resource, not just in your first few years in the post, but as a companion guide long into your teaching career.
Written by an award-winning teacher with over 30 years’ experience, this guide provides an insight into new educational initiatives and theories, bringing you up-to-date with current educational thinking. It is packed with practical information, teaching tips and tried and tested advice on issues such as:
- How to plan differentiated lessons
- How to manage the behaviour of your pupils
- How to use data effectively to track the progress of your pupils and set meaningful targets
- How to mark effectively and manage your time
- How to manage an area of responsibility in your school
- How to apply for jobs and manage your own professional development
Features + Benefits
Key features in each chapter:
- Outline of what a student can find in the chapter clearly outlined at the outset
- Top tips section
- Stop and think section with interactive tasks
- Questions for review at the end of each chapter
- Key points to remember at the end
- Case studies where applicable
- Where possible practical examples of things like school development plans and curriculum plans
- Key terms highlighted and defined in the margin.
- Relevant Research suggests where a student might look to expand their knowledge of this topic.
- Relevant website addresses clearly marked in the margin with an icon
Supplementary Material
The book will be accompanied a supplement download site, where resources from across the series can be shared. Resources include:
templates for lesson plans
lesson plans for different subjects
examples of lesson starters
addresses of subject organisations
advice on preparing your Curriculum Vitae and letters of application
research information on issues such as teaching and learning, gender and achievement
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Training to teach or a newly qualified teacher in a primary school?
The Essential Guide to Primary Teaching contains everything you need to help you become an effective and confident teaching professional.
The highly practical focus, coupled with an insight into the theory and thinking behind the practices you find in schools today, make this an invaluable resource, not just in your first few years in the post, but as a companion guide long into your teaching career.
Written by an award-winning teacher with over 30 years’ experience, this guide provides an insight into new educational initiatives and theories, bringing you up-to-date with current educational thinking. It is packed with practical information, teaching tips and tried and tested advice on issues such as:
- How to plan differentiated lessons
- How to manage the behaviour of your pupils
- How to use data effectively to track the progress of your pupils and set meaningful targets
- How to mark effectively and manage your time
- How to manage an area of responsibility in your school
- How to apply for jobs and manage your own professional development
