Improving Children's Learning: Effective Teaching in the Primary School (Educational Management Series)

✍ Scribed by Joan Dean

• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How can teachers improve what they do in the primary classroom? Which teaching methods will help you and your pupils to perform effectively? These are the questions that every teacher will be asking him or herself in today's climate of targets and tables. Much research over recent years has focused on the role of the teacher and how effective classroom practice is achieved. The book discusses many areas of topical importance including: teaching methods motivating learners and matching work to children how to structure children's learning classroom control and organisation teaching literacy teaching children with special education needs working with parents. It also looks at the increasing role of the teacher as a researcher and how colloborative practices are providing a way for teaches to appraise both their own progress and that of their colleagues. This book should be of particular interest to the classroom teacher who is looking for ways to develop his or her teaching but has limited time to explore the research. It sets out to translate the findings of research into practical terms which teachers can easily use.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 8
Assessing research......Page 13
The children......Page 16
The teacher......Page 31
The classroom climate......Page 45
Effective teaching and learning......Page 58
Classroom management......Page 82
Working in groups......Page 99
The teaching of literacy......Page 108
The teaching of mathematics......Page 127
Exceptional children......Page 136
Working with parents......Page 146
Evaluation and record keeping......Page 159
The teacher as researcher......Page 173
Conclusions......Page 178
Bibliography......Page 182
Index......Page 192