Thinking Through Primary Teaching

This book helps develop children's thinking and understanding of their own learning. Teaching thinking supports the mantra of raising standards in the short term and in the longer term helps pupils to become effective learners. The ideas and suggestions are exciting, engaging and challenging for pupils as well as invigorating for teachers.
Thinking Through Primary Teaching is about effective primary teaching. It is about developing children's thinking and understanding of their own learning. Teaching thinking supports the mantra of raising standards in the short term and in the longer term help pupils to become effective learners. Learning needs to be discussed, nurtured and celebrated, so that pupils realise that their teacher may have taught them, but that they have done the learning! The ideas and suggestions are exciting, engaging and challenging for pupils as well as invigorating for teachers.

Steve Higgins is Professor of Education at Durham University. His research interests lie mainly within the areas of effective use of information and communications technology in schools, understanding how children's thinking and reasoning develops, and how teachers can be supported in developing teaching and learning in their classrooms.