Table Of ContentDEVELOPING TEACHING SKILLS
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in the Primary School
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Developing Teaching Skills
in the Primary School
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Developing
Teaching
Skills in the
Primar y
School
Jane Johnston, John Halocha and Mark Chater
Open University Press
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Contents
FiguresandPictures vii
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations x
1 DevelopingTeachingSkillsinthePrimarySchool 1
JaneJohnston
PART 1
Planning
2 PlanningforCreativeTeaching 9
JaneJohnstonandJohnHalocha
3 ClassroomOrganization 29
JohnHalocha
4 PlanningforCitizenship 44
JohnHalocha
5 BehaviourManagement 61
MarkChater
PART 2
Doing
6 Questioning 81
JaneJohnston
7 Differentiation 99
JaneJohnston
8 UsingICTinTeaching 119
JohnHalocha
9 SupportingChildreninRecordingWork 135
JaneJohnston
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10 DevelopingInvestigativeWork/Enquiry 154
JohnHalocha
PART 3
Reviewing
11 AssessmentforLearning 177
MarkChater
12 TargetSetting 195
RichardWoolleyandJaneJohnston
13 ProfessionalCommunication 209
JaneJohnston
14 DevelopingasaReflectivePractitioner 228
MarkChater
Index 250
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Figures and Pictures
Figures
2.1 Compton’scontinuumofcreativity
2.2 Creativeteachingapproaches
2.3 ThemeanvaluesfromtheFinnishandEnglishstudentteachers’ratingsfor
teachingofphysicsactivities,science,mathematicsandmothertongueinthefour
categories:levelofdifficulty,levelofinterestandinvolvement,perceivednature
andperceivedvalue
2.4 Exampleofashort-termplan/lessonplanforReceptionchildren
3.1 Maslow’s(1968)theoryofhierarchicalneeds
6.1 Taxonomyofquestions
6.2 Frameworkforgeographicalteachingstylesandenquiry
7.1 EarlyYearsFoundationStageLessonPlan
9.1 Aplanningladderinscience
9.2 Aconceptcartoon
9.3 AYear5child’sannotateddiagram
9.4 Aconceptmap
10.1 Thescientificprocess
10.2 TowersofHanoiproblem
11.1 AYear3child’sresponsetotheassessmenttask‘Write10oddnumbersunder
100’
11.2 Alternativeviewsofthewaywesee
11.3 Theassessmentandevaluationcycle
12.1 Informedtargetsettinginlanguagedevelopment–developingsuccesscriteriafor
children’sendofkeystageachievementtoimproveteaching
12.2 Settingindividualtargets
13.1 Thelearningpartnership
14.1 Diamondnine
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Pictures
2.1 RetellingthestoryofJim and the Beanstalk
3.1 Atypicalprimaryclassroom
3.2 Workingbeyondtheclassroom
4.1 Collaborationinbuildingaseadefence
4.2 Preparingapostertocommunicatefindingstoawideraudience
5.1 Motivatingandinvolvingchildren
6.1 Askinginternalquestions
6.2 Aquestioningenvironment
7.1 Playinginthegardencentre
8.1 KeyStage2childrenusingadigitalmicroscopetodevelopobservationalskills.
9.1 Arubber-band-poweredvehicle
9.2 AKeyStage1grouprecordofaclassificationtask
10.1 Childrenengagedingeographicalinvestigation–samplingmaterialsonabeach
cross-section
10.2 Discussingseeds
13.1 Teacherspractisingusingpuppetsasanassessmenttool
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions made to this book by all
theteachers,studentteachers,academicsandchildrenwithwhomwehaveworked.
Inparticularwewouldliketothankthefollowingwhohavemadespecificcontribu-
tionsinthechaptersandrespondedinsuchapositivewaytoourbadgering:
KateAdams,BishopGrossetesteUniversityCollegeLincoln
AshleyCompton,BishopGrossetesteUniversityCollegeLincoln
JaneCox,EarlyYearsTeacher,Lincolnshire
HelenFielding,BishopGrossetesteUniversityCollegeLincoln
DeniseGudgin,BishopGrossetesteUniversityCollegeLincoln
KarenHarding,SENCOandclassteacher,St.David'sPrimary,Moreton-in-
Marsh,Gloucestershire.
ChrisJohnston,StMaryMagdalenePrimarySchool,Sutton-inAshfield,
Nottinghamshire
CatherineMaynardClark,BishopGrossetesteUniversityCollegeLincoln
VanessaRichards,PrimaryMusicConsultantinLincolnshireandLeicestershire
BiaSena,FoundationStageCoordinator,TheBritishSchool,RiodeJaneiro
ClaireTaylor,BishopGrossetesteUniversityCollegeLincoln
NikiWhitburn,BishopGrossetesteUniversityCollegeLincoln
RichardWoolley,BishopGrossetesteUniversityCollegeLincoln
