This is the guide to safeguarding for anyone training to teach in primary or secondary schools and qualified teachers wishing to deepen their professional knowledge. It offers practical guidance on managing all aspects of safeguarding as part of a busy teaching role. Understand how safeguarding fits into your role as a teacher. Learn how to create a safe environment in your classroom. Explore a flexible approach built on principles of best practice for use in any school context. Know how to build the professional relationships that underpin good safeguarding practice. Case studies across age phases give insight into how safeguarding issues occur and how they can be appropriately addressed. Debbie Innes-Turnill lectures on child protection issues at the University of Birmingham and runs a safeguarding consultancy, which advises schools, charities and other organisations on safeguarding culture.
Learn how to think like an expert primary teacher and how to plan great lessons. This book explores the knowledge, skills and evidence base that expert teachers use to plan lessons in primary schools. It combines practical principles with robust ideas from theory to offer a flexible approach to fit any school's preferred lesson planning format. Key features: Chapters are supported by examples from across the curriculum Deep insight into how expert teachers construct and teach their own lessons Carefully aligned to the National Curriculum in England, the initial teacher education Core Content Framework (CCF), the Early Career Framework (ECF) and the Teachers' Standards. This is essential reading for student teachers on primary initial teacher education courses, via any route (PGCE, BA w/QTS, School Direct, SCITT and Teach First).
A guide for trainee and beginning teachers on Adaptive Teaching. This book explores what we mean by 'Adaptive Teaching' and considers this in the current context of schools and teaching in the UK. It includes key theory to support trainee teachers' foundation knowledge. Importantly, the text focuses on practical support for classroom teaching and includes suggested approaches and examples of good practice to learn from and adapt. 'How to' guidance supporting trainees on placements and in their first years of teaching.
Mathematics is not a universally popular subject, neither within nor outside of school. There are those who love it but many do not, and it is not uncommon for people to take a perverse pride in being bad at it. This book argues that, while much needed improvements to mathematics teaching are necessary to address such issues, they are ......
How many educators have read a book, attended a conference, or pursued college or graduate work in how the brain learns? When the editors of Research-Informed Teaching asked their colleagues, they found that only 20% had.
The curriculum is the driving force for excellent teaching and learning in any school. Yet, in primary schools, the curriculum is often led by class teachers who have little or no time to give to this vital part of their role. Schools seeking to develop distributive leadership can find that many barriers arise for middle leaders. Subject leaders ......
Packed with more than 150 engaging language learning activities, this essential guide offers teachers a practical, time-saving resource they’ll return to again and again.
If ever there was a time for love and nurture it is now. Love and Nurture approaches are intertwined and impossible to focus on in isolation. This practical book for Early Years students and practitioners includes real-life case studies and practical examples alongside academic underpinning and essential theory. It supports students to understand and explore the need for and importance of Love and Nurture in early years practice. The book focuses on key child developmental factors including brain development, attachment awareness, love languages and nurturing touch, the science of nurture, the theory of love and nurture and building relational practice.
