Developing Teacher Expertise Exploring Key Issues in Primary Practice [Hardcover]

What are the issues that education raises for you?

Beyond the technical skills and knowledge aspects of education, teachers and student teachers face questions which challenge their beliefs and approaches to their teaching and learning. This book contains a series of short articles each of which encourage you to reflect on your own practice and challenge your beliefs about how and what you teach.

Questions explored include:

When does inclusion become exclusion for the rest of the class?
Do interactive whiteboards support or reduce creativity in the classroom?
Is drama a luxury in the primary classroom?
Should we be teaching other languages to children under seven?
Learning outside the classroom, is it worth it?
What makes a reflective practitioner?

Essential reading for those training to teach children aged between 3 and 11, as well as practicing teachers looking to develop their practice.

An accessible introduction to key educational issues, prompting debate, and encouraging reflective practice and supporting further enquiry.

The book could be used to invite teachers to reflect about their own practice and to initiate classroom discussions in teacher preparation courses&The simple language used, the synthesis of complex theoretical arguments, and the illustrations of classroom dilemmas make this book useful for introducing complex debates in education to teacher candidatesjust when they are beginning to work in classrooms. M. Beatriz Fern?ndez, Teachers College Record

List of Contributors \ Preface \ Introduction \Part I: The Learning Environment\ 1. Do schools work - a challenge to the institutionalization of learning?Rebecca Austin\ 2. When does inclusion become exclusion for the rest of the class?Maggie Evans\ 3. Does differentiation make it easier for children to learn?Jill Matthews\ 4. Why aim to create independent learners?Margaret Sangster\ 5. Why and how can wlÃ^