Product details in brief
Introduction
Thinking Through Primary Teaching is a resource designed to help primary teachers become more effective within their classroom. The book concentrates on developing children’s thinking and understanding of their own learning, which raises pupil attainment and helps them to become more effective learners.
Summary of contents
Thinking Through Primary Teaching provides:
- Practical starting points to develop more effective teaching
- Engaging activities to get pupils talking about learning, and thinking about thinking
- Effective strategies for wider application throughout the curriculum
- Exemplars in different curriculum subjects
- Approaches consistent with the Primary National Strategy, though they develop learning in and beyond such lessons
- A catalyst for more creative teaching and learning
- Informal activities for assessment of children’s understanding
- Many manageable opportunities to infuse thinking in the primary classroom
- Knowledge of what works and why
- The opportunity for children to see themselves as successful learners.
Chapter breakdown
Chapter 1 Thinking Through Primary Teaching
Introduction
Levels of use
Strategies and Approaches: overview
Principles of teaching thinking
SECTION 1 STRATEGIES
Chapter 2 Introducing the Strategies
The Strategies
Using the Exemplars
Chapter 3 Odd One Out
Rationale and procedure
Exemplar 1: Odd Numbers
Exemplar 2: Odd Animals
Summary
Chapter 4 Fortune Lines and Living Graphs
Rationale and procedure
Exemplar 1: Wild Thing!
Exemplar 2: Busy Road
Exemplar 3: Eureka!
Summary
Chapter 5 Mysteries
Rationale and procedure
Exemplar 1: Will Hugh get to the church on time?
Exemplar 2: London’s Burning!
Summary
Chapter 6 Writing Frames
Rationale and procedure
Exemplar 1: For or against?
Exemplar 2: Life Cycle
Summary
SECTION 2 APPROACHES
Chapter 7 Developing the Approaches
Chapter 8 Creating a Community of Enquiry
Rationale and procedure
Exemplar 1: What is Real?
Exemplar 2: Questions, questions, questions
Further reading
Chapter 9 Developing mental calculation strategies through metacognition
Rationale and procedure
Exemplar 1: Games and Names
Exemplar 2: Sum Strategies
Summary
Chapter 10 Using ICT to support thinking and reasoning
Rationale and procedure
Exemplar 1: Multimedia Apostrophes
Exemplar 2: Meet the Zoombinis!
Summary
SECTION 3 EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND TEACHING THINKING
Chapter 11 Effective teaching and teaching thinking
Review
Effective teaching
Chapter 12 Making it work: effective professional development
Chapter 13 Metacognition and learning
Chapter 14 Creating resources with ICT
Exemplar 1: Odd One Out: Using Clip-Art in Word
Exemplar 2: Designing Writing Frames
Appendix Information on the Internet
Bibliography Further reading
Details
Spiral bound, 225 x 297, 140 Pages, Published 2001
Testimonials
‘Thinking Through Primary Teaching is full of practical ideas and strategies, offering more than easy-to-use, photcopiable work-sheets. It provides an informative review of strategies for teaching thinking skills that could be used with any primary class. The ideas are exciting, engaging and challenging, and invite teachers and pupils to participate in adventures in thinking.’
Robert Fisher, TES Primary
Claire Sams and Lyn Dawes Teaching Thinking
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