2nd Edition
Primary Teaching Assistants Curriculum in context
Teaching Assistants are uniquely placed to support children’s involvement with learning. The role of those who work alongside teachers in the classroom has changed dramatically in recent years and teaching assistants are increasingly involved in planning, teaching and assessing all aspects of the curriculum.
This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on learning in gardens, children’s play in virtual environments, specialist approaches for children with communication difficulties, the nature of learning at home, the place of poetry, child abuse, learning in a breakfast club, children’s spelling, and the importance of playtime. Exploring the issues that are central to fostering children’s learning, the book examines:
- strategies for supporting learning and assessment in English, maths and science
- inclusive and imaginative practices in all areas of learning
- home and community contexts for learning
- working practices which support professional development.
Written for teaching assistants and also teachers, the book aims to enrich the contribution that teaching assistants, as team members, can make to children’s learning.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Carrie Cable, Ian Eyres and Roger Hancock
Section 1: Children and the curriculum
Introduction to Section 1
Carrie Cable, Ian Eyres and Roger Hancock
1 Play, playtime and playgrounds
Stuart Lester, Owain Jones and Wendy Russell
2 Learning from errors and misconceptions
Julie Ryan and Julian Williams
3 Why use ICT
Richard English
4 Poetry: and everyday activity
Liz Stone and Julia Gillan
5 What can teacers learn from the language that children use?
Chris Bills
6 Watching and learning: the tools of assessment
Cathy Nutbrown
7 The sensory garden
Hazreena Hussein
8 Constructivism and primary science
Patricia Murphy
9 The case for primary science
Jane Turner
10 Learning science
Joan Solomon and Stephen Lunn
Section 2: Contexts for learning
Introductin to Section 2
Ian Eyres, Carrie Cable and Roger Hancock
11. Tadpoles in the willow garden
Sam Burns and Sue Hadfield with Roger Hancock
12. ICT and bilingual children
Shelia Crowther and Ian Eyres
13. What is a ‘good’ book?
Elaine Moss
14. The effect of light and noise on pupils with Aspergers syndrome
Bernhard Menzinger and Robin Jackson
15. School buildings: ‘A safe haven, not a prison’
Catherine Burke and Ian Grosvenor
16. Joining Gabriel’s play
Kayte Brimacombe with Roger Hancock
17. Grandparents and children’s learning
Charmain Kenner et al.
18. Learning at home is not like learning in school
Alan Thomas and Jane Lowe
Section 3: Working together
Introduction to Section 3
Carrie Cable, Ian Eyres and Roger Hancock
19. Children’s play in online virtual worlds
Jackie Marsh
20. Supporting and enhancing primary mathematics
Jenny Houssart
21. Reflections on bilingual practice
Carrie Cable
22. Enabling children’s creativity
Lindsey Haynes with Anna Craft
23. Successful home-school projects in the UK
Anthony Feiler
24. It’s hard being expected to work all the time
Rose Schofield
25. Developing pupils’ self-assessment skills
Ruth Dann
Section 4: Perspectives and voices
Introduction to Section 4
Carrie Cable, Ian Eyres and Roger Hancocks
26. ‘Whoops, I forgot David’
Ian Eyres et al.
27. Child voice and cue cards
Anne Lewis, Helen Newton and Susan Vials
28. From one professional to another
Jonathan Rix
29. Bangladeshi women and their children’s reading
Adrian Blackledge
30. Breaking the taboo
Ruth Pooley
31. Common sense has much to learn from moonshine
Philip Pullman
32. Children and spelling
Marsha Bell
33. Learning in a breakfast club
Peter Woolston with Roger Hancock
34. Enriched Curriculum to the Foundation Stage Curriculum
Dympna Meikleham with Roger Hancock
Biography
Carrie Cable is an Education Consultant and Researcher.
Ian Eyres is Senior Lecturer in Education at The Open University.
Roger Hancock is an Education Consultant and Researcher.
Mary Stacey is a Writer and an Education Consultant.
