How can you become an effective primary school teacher? What do you need to be able to do? What do you need to know?

To become an effective primary school teacher requires subject knowledge, an understanding of your pupils and how they learn, a range of strategies for managing behavior and organizing your classroom, and the ability to respond to dynamic classroom situations.

This comprehensive textbook provides valuable support to trainee teachers during both the taught component and the school placement element of their initial teacher education course. It provides a sound, accessible and engaging introduction to the teaching skills that every student teacher needs to acquire in order to gain Qualified Teacher Status, as well as the underlying theory.

Written by experts in primary school teaching, the text is divided into 23 chapters each covering an essential concept or skill, including:
· The professional standards of teaching
· Looking at children
· Looking at learning
· Approaching planning
· Managing classroom behavior
· Organizing your classroom
· Inclusive approaches
· Providing for differentiation
· Responding to ethnic diversity and gender differences
· Assessment for learning

Each chapter offers a brief introduction to the key concepts and skills, and provides a range of learning activities for trainee teachers in the form of tasks. Annotated lists of further reading are included for those who want to explore topics in more detail. Each chapter ends with a range of reflective questions which can be discussed in groups or considered during individual study.

This textbook should be essential reading for all students training to be primary school teachers, including those on BA (QTS), BEd and PGCE courses, as well as those on flexible PGCE courses, those on Graduate Registered Training courses, and those studying Education Studies.