Professional Studies Primary and Early Years [Paperback]

This key resource for trainee primary teachers helps them to understand and fulfil the new professional requirements for QTS. It focuses on a range of professional issues  including management of pupils' work, individual needs and equal opportunities, behaviour for learning and professional responsibilities outside teaching. Each chapter includes tasks, examples and further reading to highlight important concepts and key issues. New and revised chapters mean this third edition is up to date with the QTS Standards, latest documents and initiatives. Further, new reflective tasks and Moving On sections help trainees to build on the information in each chapter.An invaluable guide to understanding and meeting the broad professional requirements for QTS, for all primary trainees.The complete teacher
SECTION 1: Planning and assessment
Planning for excellence and enjoyment
Planning for all abilities: inclusion and differentiation
Assessment for learning
SECTION 2: Management, organisation and delivery
Foundations for learning: Early Years
An introduction to childrens learning
Managing the learning environment
Creating a positive classroom climate
Managing classroom interaction
Managing challenging behaviour
SECTION 3: Children and individual needs
Spiritual, moral, social and cultural values in the classroom
Promoting inculsion and equal opportunities
Recognising special educational needs
Every Child Matters in your classroom: approaches to personalised learning
Teachers' professional duties and statutory responsibilities
SECTION 4: Becoming a professional
Emerging as a professional