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Introduction |
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What is primary teaching? |
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How can this book help me? |
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Section 1 Becoming A Teacher |
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1.1 Primary teaching: a personal perspective |
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Teaching: science, craft or art? |
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Enactive, pre-active and post-active primary teaching |
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The personal qualities and knowledge required of primary teachers |
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The purposes of primary teaching |
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1.2 Professionalism and trainee teachers |
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Principles underpinning the standards |
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Wider (`extended') professional responsibilities |
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1.3 Making the most of your placements |
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Establishing effective dispositions |
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Working within the school community |
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Working with school mentors |
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Making the most of learning conversations |
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Trainee progression through placements |
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Section 2 Exploring The Nature Of Learning And Teaching |
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Child development: what it is and why it matters |
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Some current and recent research |
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The implications of all this |
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Neuroscience - a new influence upon learning theory? |
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2.3 From learning to teaching |
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Towards a model for teaching |
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2.4 Developing your teaching |
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Knowledge and learning - for the pupil and the teacher |
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Quality versus quantity: organisation of knowledge |
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Other types of teacher knowledge |
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2.5 Building on firm foundations: early years practice |
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The Early Years Foundation Stage |
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Rhetoric and reality in the reception class |
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The role of the adult in play |
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The Foundation Stage Profile |
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Transition from the Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1 |
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2.6 Play and exploration in learning |
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What do we mean by play and explorative learning? |
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The importance of play and exploration in children's learning |
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Play and exploration in the EYFS and National Curriculum |
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The role of the teacher in promoting children's play and exploration |
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Using playfulness to enhance your teaching |
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Section 3 Planning And Managing Learning |
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3.1 Approaching long- and medium-term planning |
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The importance of long-term planning |
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How will you plan to teach the content? |
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Assessment and monitoring progress in long-term planning |
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3.2 Approaching short-term planning |
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The importance of short-term planning |
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Planning an effective lesson |
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Building planning experience |
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Planning for other adults in the class or setting |
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3.3 Organising your classroom for learning |
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3.4 Managing classroom behaviour |
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From whole-school issues to managing challenging pupils |
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Teacher stress, pupil behaviour and classroom control |
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Developing a classroom management plan |
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Making an early impact on your class |
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Conveying your expectations: rules and routines |
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Using routines to maximise on-task activity |
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Coping with challenging behaviour |
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3.5 Handling difficulties in social, emotional and behavioural development |
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Frameworks for understanding difficult behaviour |
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Applying behaviourist principles to manage behaviour in schools |
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Establishing attachment to address antisocial behaviour in early childhood |
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Interventions to address bullying behaviour in schools |
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3.6 Organising effective classroom talk |
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The crucial importance of classroom talk for learning |
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What is talk for learning? |
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When and how to move between types of talk |
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Raising children's awareness of talk for learning |
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Planning for exploratory talk |
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3.7 Valuing, organising and managing learning outside the classroom |
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Out-of-classroom learning in the National Curriculum |
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Valuing out-of-classroom learning |
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Organising for learning outside the classroom |
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Managing learning out of the classroom |
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Section 4 Approaches To The Curriculum |
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4.1 The aims of primary education |
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What are aims, and why do we need them? |
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Aims and practice: some historical examples |
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What are the aims of primary education? |
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The current National Curriculum for England |
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The future of the curriculum in England |
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The proposed curriculum for England: aims for primary education in the draft National Curriculum proposals |
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Aims in the draft National Curriculum documents for English, mathematics and science |
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The 2013 National Curriculum proposals at subject level |
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Thinking again about your own philosophy of primary education |
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History of the curriculum |
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Creativity and the curriculum |
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Visions for the primary curriculum |
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4.3 The national context for the curriculum |
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The emergence of a national curriculum |
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The aims and structures of the National Curriculum |
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A review of the English National Curriculum - a case study of policy into practice |
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A curriculum for the twenty-first century - the debate continues |
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The importance of teaching or learning to learn? |
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The advantages and disadvantages of a national curriculum |
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4.4 The Scottish context for the curriculum |
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Curriculum policy in Scotland |
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Policy on testing and assessment |
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The Primary Curriculum: a curriculum for excellence |
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5.1 Assessment for Learning: formative approaches |
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AfL: from theory to practice |
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Questioning Peer and self-assessment |
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Recognising and celebrating children's work |
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5.2 Assessment for Learning: summative approaches |
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What is assessment and why do it? |
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Sources of assessment evidence |
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Purposes of summative assessment |
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Producing good evidence of achievement |
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Summative assessment and teacher assessment |
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Summative assessment and SATs |
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The impact of `high stakes' assessment on pupils |
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Differences in testing across the UK |
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A critique of current assessment approaches |
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Section 6 Diversity And Inclusion |
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6.1 Providing for inclusion |
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Special and inclusive education debates |
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6.2 Providing for differentiation |
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Differentiation, difference and diversity |
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Identifying the range of learners |
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Approaches to differentiation |
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6.3 Providing for special educational needs |
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The development of UK policy in relation to SEN |
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SEN and the inclusion debate |
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Levels of provision of support in mainstream primary schools |
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Individual education plans |
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Recent government proposals in relation to SEN |
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Meeting the needs of children with SEN: where do I begin? |
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6.4 Responding to cultural diversity and citizenship |
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Case studies in modern diversity |
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Entitlement to diversity education |
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Obstacles to entitlement to diversity |
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Value of diversity awareness: beyond tokenism |
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Flexibility and the curriculum |
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School confidence in addressing diversity issues |
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Challenges in the classroom |
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Bullying and name-calling of minority ethnic groups |
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6.5 Responding to gender differences |
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Gender and school discipline |
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A role for popular culture |
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Gender, ethnicity and class |
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6.6 Responding to linguistic diversity |
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Historical responses to linguistic diversity |
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Language, identity and linguistic diversity |
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Bilingualism and bilingual learners |
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Acknowledging children's first language in the classroom |
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Supporting home languages in the classroom |
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Teaching English effectively in a linguistically diverse classroom |
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Supporting bilingual learners |
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Parents and their expectations |
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Section 7 Recent Developments |
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7.1 Listening to the voices of young people in school |
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`Pupil voice', `pupil engagement' and `pupil participation': what do these terms mean? |
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Legislation prompting the move towards listening to the voices of young people in schools |
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Why is it so important to listen to pupils? |
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How can listening to pupils be of benefit to them? |
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How can listening to pupils benefit teachers? |
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What does pupil voice work look like in schools? |
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Guiding principles when listening to pupils' voices |
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Ways in which you can engage with pupils |
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Non-verbal ways of `listening' to pupils |
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Making learning meaningful |
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Barriers to pupil voice work |
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7.2 Learning and teaching languages |
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Learning and teaching languages - methods and approaches |
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Teaching languages in primary schools |
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The Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages |
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Other essential features of the Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages |
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Progression, assessment and accreditation |
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Support for teaching and learning |
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7.3 Creativity and creative teaching and learning |
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Creative teaching and teaching for creativity |
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Personal characteristics of creative teachers |
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Features of a creative pedagogical stance |
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Creating environments of possibility |
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Creative curricula in action |
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What are thinking skills? |
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Why are thinking skills important? |
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What does research tell us about thinking? |
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The importance of metacognition |
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Key principles in teaching for thinking |
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Should Thinking be taught in separate lessons or across the curriculum? |
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How do we teach thinking in the classroom? |
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Who are the gifted and talented? |
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Identifying the gifted and talented |
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Creating the learning environment |
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Tasks to help children engage in advanced thinking |
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Thinking about the equipment (digital technology) |
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Using digital technology across the curriculum |
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History: why we are where we are |
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The Simple View of Reading |
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Stages in early reading development |
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The Year 1 phonics screening check |
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Barriers to learning to read - what prevents success? |
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Selecting texts for learning to read |
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Section 8 Partnership In Practice |
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8.1 The changing role of the teacher |
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The historical and cultural background |
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The teacher as a professional |
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The curriculum and the teacher's role |
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How inspection and school structures affect the teacher's role |
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8.2 Working together: other adults in the classroom |
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The why and who of support staff |
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Teaching assistants as part of a classroom team |
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Teaching assistants' training and development |
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8.3 Partnerships with parents |
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Professional requirements |
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Advantages of secure relationships with parents |
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Dealing with difficult situations |
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8.4 Understanding the teacher's pastoral role |
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Child protection and safeguarding |
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Section 9 Your Professional Development |
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9.1 Applying for jobs and preparing for your induction year |
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Applying for a teaching job |
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Using your experience positively in your application for a teaching post |
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Visits and interviews during your training |
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Interview portfolios and interviews |
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Induction for newly qualified teacher |
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Planning and monitoring your induction year |
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9.2 Understanding and planning your continuing professional development |
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9.3 Teaching, research and further qualifications |
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What is research and why is it important to professional development? |
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How can research help you think differently about practice? |
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Getting involved in research |
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Wales and Northern Ireland context text boxes |
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Index |
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