Beginning Teaching, Beginning Learning: in Primary Education - Softcover

Moyles, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335221300 ISBN 13: 9780335221301

Publisher: Open University Press, 2007

Synopsis

"This collection provides an excellent introduction to the practical skills which all student teachers have to develop but it also celebrates the unpredictability and excitement of working with interested, inquisitive children. [It] should inspire readers to see teaching, in universities as well as in classrooms, as the promotion of lively conversations between learners. "
– Rod Parker-Rees, University of Plymouth

"The second edition was invaluable and this is even better."
– Yvonne Yule, University of Aberdeen

The third edition of this highly successful text sets out to explore some of the wider issues to be investigated by beginning teachers - and those who support them - when working with early years and primary age children, while at the same time, exploring some of the delight and enjoyment in the teaching role.

The book is organised into four parts - Early Beginnings; Beginning to Understand Children's Thinking and Learning; Organising for Teaching and Learning; Supporting and Enhancing Learning and Teaching - and reflects the current context of education and care by covering children from birth to 11-years. There are new chapters covering teaching assistants and interagency working, as well as children's independence and physical activity. Cameos and examples of practice in settings and classrooms help to illustrate the many different aspects of teaching.

Comprehensively revised and updated throughout, this book is written in a lively style and offers guidance, encouragement and support for all those new to working in schools and other educational settings, and gives them the confidence to reflect upon, challenge and enhance their own learning and practices.

Beginning Teaching Beginning Learning is essential reading for all students and newly qualified primary teachers.

About this title

Review:

"...Janet Moyles's carefully and imaginatively edited book will be of great interest to a wide educational community... This is more than a handbook for students and their tutors - it is a manifest of the dedicated and closely focused professionalism of the University of Leicester team, and I am sure that it will still be being read in ten years time by all concerned with primary education." - Mentoring and Tutoring

About the Author:

Janet Moyles is an early years writer and educational consultant based in Leicester, UK. She was formerly Professor of Early Childhood Education and Research at Anglia Ruskin University and is author of several books and articles about early years education including the best-selling The Excellence of Play, Effective Leadership and Management in the Early Years and Beginning Teaching: Beginning Learning 2/e (Open University Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0335221300
• ISBN 13: 9780335221301
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 352