How to Plan Primary Lessons: Essential Practice and Theory for New Teachers

Learn how to think like an expert primary teacher and how to plan great lessons.

This book explores the knowledge, skills and evidence base that expert teachers use to plan lessons in primary schools. It combines practical principles with robust ideas from theory to offer a flexible approach to fit any school’s preferred lesson planning format.

Key features:

• Chapters are supported by examples from across the curriculum
• Deep insight into how expert teachers construct and teach their own lessons
• Carefully aligned to the National Curriculum in England, the initial teacher education Core Content Framework (CCF), the Early Career Framework (ECF) and the Teachers′ Standards.

This is essential reading for student teachers on primary initial teacher education courses, via any route (PGCE, BA w/QTS, School Direct, SCITT and Teach First).

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.