This book is unique as it focuses on pupils' perceptions of their learning with trainee teachers in primary schools. It aims to raise trainee teachers' awareness of the importance of considering pupils' perceptions in evaluating their teaching and provides frameworks for doing so. It enables teachers to make links between theory, research and practice as part of their on-going development.The text includes:*interviews with primary pupils*examples of new teaching approaches*case studies offering pupil insights into curriculum subjects*chapter summaries giving suggestions for teaching strategies, discussions with mentors and tutors and further reading
Author(s): Hilary Cooper
Edition: 1
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 224
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction HILARY COOPER......Page 16
The Big Picture: what children told us about their work with trainee teachers HILARY COOPER......Page 22
Why children's perceptions? The context for the inquiry ROB HYLAND......Page 34
Drama: pupils' perceptions of the power game NIGEL TOYE......Page 44
Student teachers in the infant classroom: many hands make light work? SUZANNE LEA......Page 56
Geography: can't you tell us the answer Miss? NEIL SIMCO......Page 72
The properties that matter: children's perceptions of student teachers in science ANNE RIGGS AND AFTAB GUJRAL......Page 82
Technology: wheels within wheels MAUREEN HARRISON......Page 92
1066 and all that!: pupil misconceptions in history MIKE MUGGINS......Page 100
Literacy activities: purposeful tasks or ways of keeping busy? SAM TWISELTON......Page 109
Mathematics: can trainees count? ROBIN FOSTER......Page 119
Art and design: a view from the classroom JILL PEMBERTON......Page 128
Music as you like it? KEVIN HAMEL......Page 140
Information and communication technology: who dares wins! LIZ ELLIOTT AND PETE SAUNDERS......Page 148
Physical education: challenging stereotypes JIM LAVIN......Page 156
'Oh no not Jonah again!': is aversion to 'Bible story' inevitable? LORNA CROSSMAN......Page 168
'Solicitous tenderness': discipline and responsibility in the classroom KATE JACQUES......Page 181
Please Sir! Yes Miss! OWAIN EVANS......Page 193
Miss, why are you brown?': some children's perceptions of black and Asian trainee teachers in 'all-white' schools CHARLES BATTESON......Page 201
Afterword MARION BLAKE AND FLORENCE SAMSON......Page 210
Index......Page 214
