Primary Teaching
Learning and teaching in primary schools today
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Description
Primary teaching is challenging and rewarding in equal measure. Schools are diverse and ever-changing communities where children and teachers learn alongside each other. When learning to teach, practical experience in the classroom is essential, as is learning from others and being able to reflect on your own learning and performance. Equally important is the ability to critically evaluate learning and teaching and to look at current practice in schools and in the UK and to question it. In fact, in teacher training, the questions are just as important as the answers:
What is teaching?
How do children learn?
What is pedagogy?
Does curriculum really matter?
Should teachers 'manage' behaviour?
How do I support children with SEND?
What can AI tools do for teachers?
This core text from Learning Matters tackles these questions and more. It poses questions to encourage a re-thinking of the world of schools and learning. It challenges trainee teachers to ask why,to engage with research and to reflect on their own practice and the practice in their placement schools.
Primary Teaching is a core text for trainee teachers.
What is teaching?
How do children learn?
What is pedagogy?
Does curriculum really matter?
Should teachers 'manage' behaviour?
How do I support children with SEND?
What can AI tools do for teachers?
This core text from Learning Matters tackles these questions and more. It poses questions to encourage a re-thinking of the world of schools and learning. It challenges trainee teachers to ask why,to engage with research and to reflect on their own practice and the practice in their placement schools.
Primary Teaching is a core text for trainee teachers.
Contents
Part 1: Understanding primary teaching
- 1 What is teaching?
- 2 What matters in early childhood?
- 3 How do children learn?
- 4 What is pedagogy?
- 5 Diversity, equity and inclusion in schools
Part 2: Essential principles for teaching
- 6 Why is teacher professionalism important?
- 7 What matters in planning?
- 8 Does behaviour need ‘managing’?
- 9 What is oracy and why does it matter?
- 10 What is assessment?
- 11 What can teachers do to raise outcomes for children with special educational needs and disabilities?
Part 3: Developing skills for teaching
- 12 How can I work to ensure a positive primary school placement?
- 13 My space, your space, our space. Re-thinking the learning environment: is it fit for purpose?
- 14 How can we build positive relationships with children and parents?
- 15 Adaptive teaching: smashing through the glass ceiling?
Part 4: Teaching now
- 16 Teacher Wellbeing: Are doughnuts in the staffroom enough?
- 17 How can teachers diversify the curriculum to ensure it reflects all of our children?
- 18 Techology, AI and primary teaching
- 19 Why do teachers need to know about child mental health?
- 20 What is the true power of reading?
- 21 What is sustainability, why is it important and what does it mean for my teaching?
- 22 Talk in the classroom: what counts as ‘oracy’?
- 23 Relationship and Sex Education: How does getting to know ourselves, our children and their families create a recipe for an inclusive RSE learning environment?
- 24 How can our teaching embrace neurodivergent learners?
- 25 Rewilding learning: an opportunity for meaningful inclusion
- 26 What is coaching and how can I develop coaching approaches in my classroom?
Description
Primary teaching is challenging and rewarding in equal measure. Schools are diverse and ever-changing communities where children and teachers learn alongside each other. When learning to teach, practical experience in the classroom is essential, as is learning from others and being able to reflect on your own learning and performance. Equally important is the ability to critically evaluate learning and teaching and to look at current practice in schools and in the UK and to question it. In fact, in teacher training, the questions are just as important as the answers:
What is teaching?
How do children learn?
What is pedagogy?
Does curriculum really matter?
Should teachers 'manage' behaviour?
How do I support children with SEND?
What can AI tools do for teachers?
This core text from Learning Matters tackles these questions and more. It poses questions to encourage a re-thinking of the world of schools and learning. It challenges trainee teachers to ask why,to engage with research and to reflect on their own practice and the practice in their placement schools.
Primary Teaching is a core text for trainee teachers.
What is teaching?
How do children learn?
What is pedagogy?
Does curriculum really matter?
Should teachers 'manage' behaviour?
How do I support children with SEND?
What can AI tools do for teachers?
This core text from Learning Matters tackles these questions and more. It poses questions to encourage a re-thinking of the world of schools and learning. It challenges trainee teachers to ask why,to engage with research and to reflect on their own practice and the practice in their placement schools.
Primary Teaching is a core text for trainee teachers.
Contents
Part 1: Understanding primary teaching
- 1 What is teaching?
- 2 What matters in early childhood?
- 3 How do children learn?
- 4 What is pedagogy?
- 5 Diversity, equity and inclusion in schools
Part 2: Essential principles for teaching
- 6 Why is teacher professionalism important?
- 7 What matters in planning?
- 8 Does behaviour need ‘managing’?
- 9 What is oracy and why does it matter?
- 10 What is assessment?
- 11 What can teachers do to raise outcomes for children with special educational needs and disabilities?
Part 3: Developing skills for teaching
- 12 How can I work to ensure a positive primary school placement?
- 13 My space, your space, our space. Re-thinking the learning environment: is it fit for purpose?
- 14 How can we build positive relationships with children and parents?
- 15 Adaptive teaching: smashing through the glass ceiling?
Part 4: Teaching now
- 16 Teacher Wellbeing: Are doughnuts in the staffroom enough?
- 17 How can teachers diversify the curriculum to ensure it reflects all of our children?
- 18 Techology, AI and primary teaching
- 19 Why do teachers need to know about child mental health?
- 20 What is the true power of reading?
- 21 What is sustainability, why is it important and what does it mean for my teaching?
- 22 Talk in the classroom: what counts as ‘oracy’?
- 23 Relationship and Sex Education: How does getting to know ourselves, our children and their families create a recipe for an inclusive RSE learning environment?
- 24 How can our teaching embrace neurodivergent learners?
- 25 Rewilding learning: an opportunity for meaningful inclusion
- 26 What is coaching and how can I develop coaching approaches in my classroom?
March 2026 | 424 pages | Learning Matters
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 02/10/2024 | 9781036209544 | $151.00 |
| Hardcover | 02/10/2024 | 9781036209551 | $179.00 |
| 180 Day Ebook | 27/02/2026 | 9781036239817 | $88.00 |
| Lifetime | 27/02/2026 | 9781036239817 | $128.00 |
Primary teaching is challenging and rewarding in equal measure. Schools are diverse and ever-changing communities where children and teachers learn alongside each other. When learning to teach, practical experience in the classroom is essential, as is learning from others and being able to reflect on your own learning and performance. Equally important is the ability to critically evaluate learning and teaching and to look at current practice in schools and in the UK and to question it. In fact, in teacher training, the questions are just as important as the answers:
What is teaching?
How do children learn?
What is pedagogy?
Does curriculum really matter?
Should teachers 'manage' behaviour?
How do I support children with SEND?
What can AI tools do for teachers?
This core text from Learning Matters tackles these questions and more. It poses questions to encourage a re-thinking of the world of schools and learning. It challenges trainee teachers to ask why,to engage with research and to reflect on their own practice and the practice in their placement schools.
Primary Teaching is a core text for trainee teachers.
What is teaching?
How do children learn?
What is pedagogy?
Does curriculum really matter?
Should teachers 'manage' behaviour?
How do I support children with SEND?
What can AI tools do for teachers?
This core text from Learning Matters tackles these questions and more. It poses questions to encourage a re-thinking of the world of schools and learning. It challenges trainee teachers to ask why,to engage with research and to reflect on their own practice and the practice in their placement schools.
Primary Teaching is a core text for trainee teachers.
Table Of Contents:
- Part 1: Understanding primary teaching
- 1 What is teaching?
- 2 What matters in early childhood?
- 3 How do children learn?
- 4 What is pedagogy?
- 5 Diversity, equity and inclusion in schools
- Part 2: Essential principles for teaching
- 6 Why is teacher professionalism important?
- 7 What matters in planning?
- 8 Does behaviour need ‘managing’?
- 9 What is oracy and why does it matter?
- 10 What is assessment?
- 11 What can teachers do to raise outcomes for children with special educational needs and disabilities?
- Part 3: Developing skills for teaching
- 12 How can I work to ensure a positive primary school placement?
- 13 My space, your space, our space. Re-thinking the learning environment: is it fit for purpose?
- 14 How can we build positive relationships with children and parents?
- 15 Adaptive teaching: smashing through the glass ceiling?
- Part 4: Teaching now
- 16 Teacher Wellbeing: Are doughnuts in the staffroom enough?
- 17 How can teachers diversify the curriculum to ensure it reflects all of our children?
- 18 Techology, AI and primary teaching
- 19 Why do teachers need to know about child mental health?
- 20 What is the true power of reading?
- 21 What is sustainability, why is it important and what does it mean for my teaching?
- 22 Talk in the classroom: what counts as ‘oracy’?
- 23 Relationship and Sex Education: How does getting to know ourselves, our children and their families create a recipe for an inclusive RSE learning environment?
- 24 How can our teaching embrace neurodivergent learners?
- 25 Rewilding learning: an opportunity for meaningful inclusion
- 26 What is coaching and how can I develop coaching approaches in my classroom?