Learning to be a Primary Teacher

This essential guide gives all primary trainees and beginning teachers the key knowledge, understanding and skills new teachers need to succeed. 

Learning to be a primary teacher is a bit like becoming a superhero!

It’s not impossible, but it takes hard work and dedication to become that heroic individual, looked up to by the whole class, who is able to simultaneously be fun, creative, responsive to a range of different needs and who knows everything about all subjects! So to harness and develop your inner powers look no further than this essential core text. It will ensure you are fully equipped to:

• tackle planning and assessment with ease
• win the fight against poor behaviour
• overcome your worries about subject knowledge
• challenge and apply theory and research
• build your emotional strength and resilience
• stand tall as a professional
• and most importantly, protect and nurture the children in your care.

Introduction

1. Using research
2. Subject knowledge and pedagogy
3. Subject knowledge in English
4. Subject knowledge in Mathematics
5. Child development
6. Planning and differentiation
7. Assessment
8. Behaviour management
9. SEND
10. Professionalism

Index