Primary Teaching

Part 1 Understanding primary teaching 1. What is teaching? - Catherine Carden and Virginia Bower 2. What are the realities of being a teacher in the UK today? - Janet Oosthuysen 3. What matters in early childhood? - Ioanna Palaiologou and Zenna Kingdon 4. How do children learn? - Sean MacBlain 5. How can I bring evidence-based practice into my classroom? - Mark Boylan 6. Does curriculum really matter? - Paul Killen and Avril Rowley Part 2 Essential principles of teaching 7. Why is teacher professionalism important? - Glenn Stone 8. What matters in planning? - Deborah Wilkinson and Lorna Earle 9. Does behaviour need 'managing'? - Mark Sackville-Ford 10. Talk and communication: couldn't they just sit down and shut up? - Kate Allott and David Waugh 11. What is assessment? - Mary Briggs 12. What can teachers do to raise outcomes for children with special educational needs and disabilities? - Jonathan Glazzard Part 3 Developing skills for teaching 13. How can I work to ensure a positive primary school placement? - Cara Broadhurst 14. Learning environments - Jon Audain 15. How can questions, pace and delivery promote deep learning and thinking? - Jonathan Doherty 16. How can we build positive relationships with children and parents? - Noel Purdy, Jill Dunn and Diane McClelland 17. How can opportunities beyond the classroom maximise learning outcomes? - Elaine Skates 18. How do we ensure that our classrooms are truly inclusive? - Deborah Langston 19. Is data the whole story? The data-led accountability of teachers - Darren McKay Part 4 Teaching now 20. Teacher Wellbeing: Are doughnuts in the staffroom enough? - Adrian Bethune and Catherine Carden 21. How can teachers diversify the curriculum to ensure it reflects all of our children? - Aleishia Lewis 22. Why bother with digital technology? - Kelly Carabott and Amber McLeod 23. What is the true power of reading? - Louise Johns-Shepherd 24. What is the potential of a primary STEM curriculum? - Alan Cross 25. A broad and balanced curriculum? - Susan Ogier 26. Why do teachers need to know about child mental health? - Sarah Adams, Michelle O'Reilly and Khalid Karim 27. What is sustainability, why is it important and what does it mean for my teaching? - Nicola Kemp and Stephen Scoffham 28. Relationship and Sex Education: How does getting to know ourselves, our children and their families create a recipe for an inclusive RSE learning environment? - Bonnie Kerr and Kat Vallely Part 5 Building a career 29. What next? Beginning teaching and moving forward - Lucy Barker 30. Continuing professional development: what does it really mean, and how can teachers best engage with it? - Mary McAteer and Conor McAteer 31. Is engaging with and in research a worthwhile investment for teachers? - Cat Scutt