Primary Teaching Skills

Primary teachers have always been required to master a wealth of knowledge and professional skills and recent debate has led to pressure for ever higher levels of competence. Ted Wragg's book provides a comprehensive guide to the skills needed by today's primary teachers. Separate chapters cover such central demands of the job as explaining new topics, asking stimulating questions and settling down with a new class and one is devoted to the particular problems of supply teachers. Based on extensive research in classrooms over the last three years, Primary Teaching Skills will enlighten and entertain both student and novice teachers and their more experienced colleagues at all stages of their professional development.

Primary teachers have always been required to master a wealth of knowledge and professional skills and recent debate has led to pressure for even higher levels of competence. E. C. Wragg's book provides a comprehensive guide to the skills needed by today's primary teachers. Separate chapters cover such central demands of the job as explaining new topics, asking stimulating questions and working with a new class. There is also a chapter devoted to the particular problems of supply teachers.

Based on extensive research in classrooms over the past three years, Primary Teaching Skills will enlighten and entertain both student and novice teachers and their more experienced colleagues at all stages of their professional development. It is a valuable text for undergraduates, academics and professionals in primary education, as well as school officials and policy workers.

Ted Wragg's enlightening and comprehensive guide to the skills required of today's primary teachers. Chapters cover explaining new topics, questioning, facing new classes and problems with supply teachers. A real classic. An enlightening and comprehensive guide to the skills required of today's primary teachers. Chapters cover explaining new topics, questioning, facing new classes and problems with supply teachers Reports on the findings of the three-year Leverhulme Primary Project