Primary Teaching: Primary Teaching Now

Part 1 Understanding primary teaching
1. What is teaching? - Catherine Carden and Virginia Bower
2. What are the realities of being a teacher in the UK today? - Janet Oosthuysen
3.What matters in early childhood? - Ioanna Palaiologou and Zenna Kingdon
4.How do children learn? - Sean MacBlain
5.How can I bring evidence-based practice into my classroom? - Mark Boylan
6.Does curriculum really matter? - Paul Killen and Avril Rowley
Part 2 Essential principles of teaching
7.Why is teacher professionalism important? - Glenn Stone
8. What matters in planning? - Deborah Wilkinson and Lorna Earle
9. Does behaviour need 'managing'? - Mark Sackville-Ford
10. Talk and communication: couldn’t they just sit down and shut up? - Kate Allott and David Waugh
11.What is assessment? - Mary Briggs
12. What can teachers do to raise outcomes for children with special educational needs and disabilities? - Jonathan Glazzard
Part 3 Developing skills for teaching
13. How can I work to ensure a positive primary school placement? - Cara Broadhurst
14.Learning environments - Jon Audain
15. How can questions, pace and delivery promote deep learning and thinking? - Jonathan Doherty
16. How can we build positive relationships with children and parents? - Noel Purdy, Jill Dunn and Diane McClelland
17.How can opportunities beyond the classroom maximise learning outcomes? - Elaine Skates
18. How do we ensure that our classrooms are truly inclusive? - Deborah Langston
19. Is data the whole story? The data-led accountability of teachers - Darren McKay
Part 4 Teaching now
20. Teacher Wellbeing: Are doughnuts in the staffroom enough? - Adrian Bethune and Catherine Carden
21. How can teachers diversify the curriculum to ensure it reflects all of our children? - Aleishia Lewis
22. Why bother with digital technology? - Kelly Carabott and Amber McLeod
23. What is the true power of reading? - Louise Johns-Shepherd
24. What is the potential of a primary STEM curriculum? - Alan Cross
25. A broad and balanced curriculum? - Susan Ogier
26. Why do teachers need to know about child mental health? - Sarah Adams, Michelle O’Reilly and Khalid Karim
27. What is sustainability, why is it important and what does it mean for my teaching? - Nicola Kemp and Stephen Scoffham
28. Relationship and Sex Education: How does getting to know ourselves, our children and their families create a recipe for an inclusive RSE learning environment? - Bonnie Kerr and Kat Vallely
Part 5 Building a career
29. What next? Beginning teaching and moving forward - Lucy Barker
30. Continuing professional development: what does it really mean, and how can teachers best engage with it? - Mary McAteer and Conor McAteer
31. Is engaging with and in research a worthwhile investment for teachers? - Cat Scutt