"We know that successful teachers need to use a range of teaching strategies, but what are they? What Makes a Good Primary School Teacher? provides a fascinating account of the range of teaching, assessment and feedback strategies used by individual 'expert' teachers." "This boo…
Learning to teach in the primary school
This new textbook provides support to student teachers on primary ITT, BEd and PGCE courses. It supplies a practical introduction to the teaching skills as well as the theory underpinning them.
"Flexible, effective and creative primary school teachers require subject knowledge, an understanding of their pupils and how they learn, a range of strategies for managing behaviour and organising environments for learning, and the ability to respond to dynamic classroom situat…
Brings together various perspectives from the fields of assessment policy development and the sociology of the classroom. This book explores how the assessment of young children is carried out in classrooms and with what consequences for their understanding of schooling and the …
This book explores how the assessment of young children is carried out in the classroom & with what consequences for their understanding of schooling & the development of their learning in particular subject areas.
This practical guide shows how assessment can encourage learning rather than stifle children with excessive testing. The contents cover feedback, questioning, students owning the learning, and much more.
Putting Assessment for Learning into Practice is about the purpose of teaching and assessment as a means to ensuring deep, maximised, engaged and challenging learning. The simple message is good teaching can overcome bad testing and central to assessment for learning is empoweri…
Presenting original quantitative and qualitative data from a large-scale empirical research project conducted in British secondary schools, 'Reassessing 'Ability' Grouping' analyses the impact of attainment grouping on pupil outcomes, teacher effectiveness and social equality.
