Effective Teaching (leverhulme Primary Project Classroom Skills)

EFFECTIVE TEACHING What is effective teaching? In the nineteenth century, teacher training institutions were called ‘normal schools’ because it was assumed there was only one way to teach—the ‘norm’. Today there is no single style of teaching endorsed by everyone. How teachers teach depends on factors like the age and ability of the children, their background and needs, the nature of the subject or topic being studied and the resources available. The authors draw on their considerable experience of teacher training and research into classrooms, to explore several dimensions of teaching. These include planning and preparation, direct instruction, the management of materials and of behaviour, conversation with children, monitoring, and evaluating learning. They show how teachers can improve their competence and meet their aspirations, both individually and with their colleagues. The book will be very useful to trainee and experienced teachers, heads, teacher trainers and inspectors. Richard Dunne is a Lecturer in the School of Education at Exeter University. Ted Wragg is Professor of Education at Exeter University and is the author of many books including, in this series, Class Management and with George Brown, Explaining and Questioning. He writes a regular column for the Times Educational Supplement and is a frequent commentator for radio and television on education matters. LEVERHULME PRIMARY PROJECT The Leverhulme Project, based at Exeter University, directed by Ted Wragg and Neville Bennett and coordinated by Clive Carré, was a major survey of primary teacher education since 1988. Its bank of valuable information about what actually happens in classrooms and how teachers are reacting to current changes in education will be used for a variety of publications including the Classroom Skills series. LEVERHULME PRIMARY PROJECT Classroom Skills series All primary teachers need to master certain basic pedagogical skills. This set of innovative yet practical resource books for teachers covers each of those skills in turn. Each book contains • Practical, written and oral activities for individual and group use at all stages of professional development • Transcripts of classroom conversation and teacher feedback and photographs of classroom practice to stimulate discussion • Succinct and practical explanatory text Other titles in the series TALKING AND LEARNING IN GROUPS Elisabeth Dunne and Neville Bennett CLASS MANAGEMENT E.C.Wragg EXPLAINING E.C.Wragg and George Brown QUESTIONING George Brown and E.C.Wragg Leverhulme Primary Project Classroom Skills Series Series editor Clive Carré EFFECTIVE TEACHING Richard Dunne and Ted Wragg London and New York First published 1994 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1994 Richard Dunne and E.C.Wragg All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or by other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog