Effective Primary School Classroom

Taylor & Francis

This accessible book provides student-teachers and new teachers with a good overview of how to organise the busy primary classroom. > \nThis book describes good practice in the primary school and offers advice particularly to beginning teachers and students. It begins by considering the children, their physical, intellectual and emotional development and the development of their self-image. It makes suggestions about ways in which a teacher can assess a new class and stresses the importance of motivation and first-hand experience.\nThe Effective Primary School Classroom covers all the issues teachers are faced with in their day-to-day work and includes chapters on: \n--managing time and space \n--teaching and learning \n--working in groups \n--evaluation and record keeping \n--classroom management \n--working with support staff \n--working with parents. \nIn addition, there is discussion of ways of organising learning to help children acquire the learning set out in the National Cn