How to Plan Primary Lessons

Dr. Lorna Shires has been a schoolteacher and headteacher and led a university programme of initial teacher education. She has many years’ experience of teaching trainees and new teachers in school and at university at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and working with teacher educators in both types of setting.

• Part 1: Essential theoryChapter 1: What is learning?Chapter 2: What is teaching?Chapter 3: What is a curriculum?Chapter 4: What is backwards planning?Part 2: Essential practice: what are you teaching?Chapter 5: How to use the curriculum when you planChapter 6: How to plan for what your pupils will learn, not what they will doChapter 7: How to plan so talk supports learningPart 3: Essential practice: how will you teach?Chapter 8: How to structure a lessonChapter 9: How to plan for quality interactionsChapter 10: How to plan for what your pupils will do in your lessonsChapter 11: How to plan for scaffolding and modellingChapter 12: How to plan so that your pupils remember what you have taughtChapter 13: How to plan so that you can find out if your pupils are learning

This is an extremely useful resource for aspiring primary school teachers and to those delivering ITE in the primary phase, drawing on relevant evidence and packed with useful practical advice. Highly recommended!