This description of teaching in the primary grades examines how a teacher can establish a classroom collaborative learning community. It also explores how they can plan curriculum and instruction that features powerful ideas and applications to life outside of school, and motiva…
Building on highly topical research surrounding young children's participation, this book draws from a diversity of disciplines to explore the importance of participatory approaches to children's early education and show how fostering a sense of identity and belonging is essenti…
by Murdoch, Kath, Wilson, Jeni
fromLITTLE BOOKS OF LIFE SKILLS
by Murdoch, Kath, Wilson, Jeni
fromLITTLE BOOKS OF LIFE SKILLS
"Helping your pupils to think for themselves defines the various types of thinking (critical, creative, reflective) and discusses in detail the most crucial type of thinking for student progress - metacognition, which involves self-assessment, active decision making and personal…
"Just as adults join clubs to share and talk about common interests, reading clubs allow kids to immerse themselves in topics and ideas they care about - whether it's turtles, fairy tales, a beloved author, a favorite new series, or the desire to get better at reading aloud to a…
"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…
Develop students' test-taking skills with a fun, three-week instructional unit that helps them excel in multiple test formats while building strong metacognitive skills for lifelong learning.
Guiding Reading will help all teachers of children in Key Stage 2 understand what is involved in guided reading and will dispel common misunderstandings. In guided reading, children read the texts themselves while the teacher acts as the expert who guides them through the text. …
"This second edition of Guiding Reading has been thoroughly revised and expanded. It is a helpful complement to two further books on guided reading published by the Institute of Education: Book Bands for Guided Reading: Organising KS1 texts for the Literacy Hour, Bridging Bands …
