Reflective Teaching in the Primary School: A Handbook for the Classroom Book

This is the new edition of a best-selling text designed to support teachers and student teachers in school-based professional development. The book is a comprehensive and innovative handbook, dealing with every significant aspect of primary school teaching. Practical ideas and support for reflection on classroom experiences are offered, while concern for the purposes, values and wider context of education is sustained. The book promotes the mission and fulfillment of teaching young children, and will help to develop teaching which is skillful, imaginative and worth while. Completely revised for the 1990s, the new edition supports school-based work and relates directly to teacher competency criteria. There are several new chapters, and extensive, up-todate guidance on further reading is provided for every topic. Underlying all this remains a commitment to the quality of children's learning and school experience. This book is an essential resource for teachers and student teachers engaged in constructive professional development in primary schools.