Product Description

This invaluable coursebook is designed for all trainees working towards Qualified Teacher Status. Covering the essential skills of planning, monitoring and assessment and class management, it relates these specifically to primary English. The text is structured around the current curriculum and incorporates the Primary National Strategy. Content is linked to the 2007 QTS Standards. This new 4th edition includes links with the Early Years Foundation Stage and updated research summaries. The Assessing English chapter has been updated to include Assessment of Pupil Progress. Examples of cross curricular links with primary modern foreign languages are also added to this new edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12033 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
An excellent updated resource for primary trainee teachers, which complies with the 2007 QTS standards, and includes the impact of key Government initiatives, such as ECM and Rose's review of early reading. --Senior Lecturer, St Mary's University College

Very easy to read - good examples from children. Very practically-based with good links to the National Curriculum and Foundation Stage. Chapters particularly well written. --Lecturer, UCLAN

Very easy to read - good examples from children. Very practically-based with good links to the National Curriculum and Foundation Stage. Chapters particularly well written. --Lecturer, UCLAN

TES
This is a resource that should inspire teachers with the confidence to apply the guidance imaginatively in
their own contexts.

About the Author
Jane Medwell is an Associate Professor in Education at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick.

Customer Reviews

A must-have for all trainee primary teachers
This book is core reading for my course and has been an invaluable guide. It covers everything you need to know from how children learn language to how to be successful at assessment. It includes useful research summaries, interesting practical tasks all of which help develop understanding. There are lots of 'classroom stories' where real examples are used to illuminate theory. I found these to be particuarly useful as they demonstrate how to apply abstract theory to practice. As I am training to be a teacher not at educational theorist this connection is vital. This is a easy-to-understand, practical text which, along with it's sister book 'Primary English - Knowledge and Understanding', will fully prepare you for QTS. My advice is: buy it now!

a must for all primary teachers
I found this book very useful. I am at university training to be a primary school teacher and found everything i needed to know in the book. It benefits teachers who are already qualified with their teaching. I found the content useful for my assignments and would strongly recommend it. This really is a must for all primary teachers.

useful
I read this book durng my teacher training. It definately serves it's purpose. Educational and to the point, well-set-out chapters, easy to locate information you need.