Overview

Learn how to think like an expert primary teacher and how to plan great lessons. This book explores the knowledge, skills and evidence base that expert teachers use to plan lessons in primary schools. It combines practical principles with robust ideas from theory to offer a flexible approach to fit any school's preferred lesson planning format. Key features: Chapters are supported by examples from across the curriculum Deep insight into how expert teachers construct and teach their own lessons Carefully aligned to the National Curriculum in England, the initial teacher education Core Content Framework (CCF), the Early Career Framework (ECF) and the Teachers' Standards. This is essential reading for student teachers on primary initial teacher education courses, via any route (PGCE, BA w/QTS, School Direct, SCITT and Teach First).

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Author:   Lorna Shires
Publisher:   Sage Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Sage Publications Ltd
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781529626612

ISBN 10:   1529626617
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   03 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Essential theory Chapter 1: What is learning? Chapter 2: What is teaching? Chapter 3: What is a curriculum? Chapter 4: What is backwards planning? Part 2: Essential practice: what are you teaching? Chapter 5: How to use the curriculum when you plan Chapter 6: How to plan for what your pupils will learn, not what they will do Chapter 7: How to plan so talk supports learning Part 3: Essential practice: how will you teach? Chapter 8: How to structure a lesson Chapter 9: How to plan for quality interactions Chapter 10: How to plan for what your pupils will do in your lessons Chapter 11: How to plan for scaffolding and modelling Chapter 12: How to plan so that your pupils remember what you have taught Chapter 13: How to plan so that you can find out if your pupils are learning

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This is an extremely useful resource for aspiring primary school teachers and to those delivering ITE in the primary phase, drawing on relevant evidence and packed with useful practical advice. Highly recommended! -- James Noble-Rogers

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Dr. Lorna Shires has been a schoolteacher and headteacher and led a university programme of initial teacher education. She has many years’ experience of teaching trainees and new teachers in school and at university at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and working with teacher educators in both types of setting.

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