Beginning Teaching

Part 1 Teaching to learn: do you really want to cope with 30 lively primary children and become an effective teacher?; a place for everything...?; the classroom as a teaching and learning context; seeing clearly - observation in the primary classroom; you don't know what you know 'til you know it! - competency-based teacher education. Part 2 Learning to teach: take some notice of me! Primary children and their learning potential; what shall we do today? Planning for learning - children and teachers!; what shall we put in the fruit salad?; developing investigative thinking and skills in children; not by bread alone - developing thinking and skills in the arts; a story in your head... developing oracy and imaginative skills in children through storytelling; let's co-operate! Developing social skills in the classrrom; do we have to write about it now? Developing writing skills in the primary classroom. Part 3 Responsibilities, roles and relationships: keeping track; assessinng, monitoring and recording children's progress and achievement; it's not fair! Equal opportunities in practice; it takes two to tango! Working with experienced others in the school; don't make a drama out of a crisis! Primary teachers and the law; the road to Damascus - learning from continuing experiences.