Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xi, 208 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "Written for students, practitioners and policy makers, Primary Education: The Key Concepts is a guide to the most important ideas and issues involved in the education of children at this crucial and formative time in their lives." "Alphabetically arranged and fully cross-referenced to ensure ease of use, entries include both curriculum-specific and generic theoretical terms, such as: assessment, objectives, coping strategies, differentiation, behaviour, special needs, and time management." "Primary Education: The Key Concepts is a concise yet comprehensive text that takes into account the everyday realities of teaching. Readable and user-friendly, it is a first-class resource for the primary practitioner at all levels."--Jacket.

Series statement

1. Routledge key guides

Uniform title

1. Routledge key guides

Subject

1. Education, Elementary > Great Britain
2. 81.74 primary education
3. Education, Elementary
4. Grundschulunterricht
5. Primary education
6. Great Britain
7. Großbritannien
8. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Genre/Form

1. Reference books (form)

Contents

1. Introduction (Background) -- Ability; Accountability; Achievement; Activities and tasks; ADHD; Anxiety; Appraisal; Assembly; Assessment; Assistants; Behaviour; Behaviourism; Body Language; Bullying; Caring; Celebration; Childhood; Circle time; Citizenship; Class Size; Code of Practice; Collaboration; Collegiality; Communication; Competition; Concepts; Constructivism; Context ; Control; Creativity; Cross-curricular work (Curriculum integration); Curriculum; Decision-making; Differentiation; Dilemmas; Early Years; Educational visits; Effectiveness; Emotion; Encouragement; Enjoyment; Enquiry; Equal opportunities; Expectations ; Extra-curricular; Feedback; Friendship; Giftedness and talent; Health & Safety; Homework; Humour; Imagination; Inclusion; Induction; Inspection; Instruction; Interaction; Intervention; Key Stages; Knowledge.
2. Leadership; Learning Climate; Learning objectives; Legality; Lessons; Lesson management; Lesson planning; Lesson review; Literacy; Memory ; Mistakes and misconceptions; Monitoring progress; Moral development; Motivation for teaching; Numeracy; Nurturing; Oracy; Organising for learning; Parental involvement; Passion; Phonics; Play; Professionalism ; Professional Development; Punishment; Pupil learning; Pupil motivation; Questioning; Reading; Recording; Reflection; Reporting; Rewards; Rite of passage; Rules; Self-esteem; Skills; Special Educational Needs; Steiner Waldorf Schools; Talk ; Target-setting; Teacher Role; Teaching approach; Testing; Thinking; Time management; Topic work; Values -- Web sites -- References.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
2. Includes Web resources.