Primary Teacher Education High Status? High Standards?

Informed professional debate about primary teacher education is long overdue. This book provides a sense of direction and impetus in this debate by focusing on pressing topical issues of policy and provision. There is focus on the current national scrutiny of initial and inservice teacher training, which is resulting in the development of a National Curriculum for ITE, the proposal of a General Teaching Council and Continuing Professional Development initiatives from the TTA. In addition, the book will be of direct use in the design and implementation of new courses in teacher education, and it takes a proactive stand on the issues in contrast to the dominant culture in teacher education, which is largely reactive to government policy shifts. All the contributions have been specially commissioned for this book, and will analyze trends, identify emerging issues and draw conclusions about likely future developments.

Introduction: Primary Teacher Education: New Directions, New Issues, New Problems, New Opportunities, Colin Richards, Neil Simco, Sam Twiselton; Part 01 The Changing Context of Primary Teacher Education, Colin Richards, Neil Simco, Sam Twiselton; Chapter 1 Changing Teacher Education—Genuine Part nership or Arranged Marriage?, Rob Hyland, Glynis Wood; Chapter 2 The Teacher Training Agency, Higher Education and the Professionalism of Initial Teacher Educators, Kate Jacques; Chapter 3 Primary Teaching: High Status? High Standards?, Colin Richards; Part 02 A New National Curriculum for Primary Initial Teacher Education, Colin Richards, Neil Simco, Sam Twiselton; Chapter 4 Circular 10/97: Its Context and Implications for Course Design and Development, Jack Hogbin, Karen Jarmany; Chapter 5 A Key Stage 6 Core Curriculum? A Critique of the National Curriculum for Initial Teacher Training, Colin Richards, Paul Harling, David Webb; Chapter 6 Primary ITE English National Curriculum: Model Standards or Standard Model?, Bob Leather, Kath Langley Hamel; Chapter 7 Mathematics—By Design With Confidence, Robin Foster; Chapter 8 Beyond the Core: Raising Standards Across the Curriculum, Rob David, Kevin Hamel, Chris Rowley; Chapter 9 IT: Meeting the New Requirements, Dave Murray, Jill Collison; Chapter 10 Teacher Education and PSMSC—Implications of the New Requirements, Tony Ewens; Part 03 Pedagogy in Initial Teacher Education, Colin Richards, Neil Simco, Sam Twiselton; Chapter 11 Initial Teacher Education as the Acquisition of Technical Skills for Teaching: A Panacea for the Future?, Neil Simco; Chapter 12 Towards Effective Communication, Kay Mills; Chapter 13 Drama as a Way to Teach Teachers about Teaching, Nigel Toye, Francis Prendiville; Chapter 14 The Trouble With English: The Challenge of Developing Subject Knowledge in School, Sam Twiselton, David Webb; Part 04 Emerging Issues in Mentoring, Colin Richards, Neil Simco, Sam Twiselton; Chapter 15 Mentoring: Possible Developments and Constraints, Hilary Cooper, Charles Batteson; Chapter 16 Mentoring: Realising the True Potential of School-based ITE, Jill Collison; Chapter 17 Mentor Assessment of Trainee Competence—The Introduction of Grading, Chris Sixsmith; Part 05 Beyond Initial Teacher Education, Colin Richards, Neil Simco, Sam Twiselton; Chapter 18 The Induction of New Teachers: The Road to High Status and High Standards?, Neil Simco; Chapter 19 Turning Round the Titanic: Changing Attitudes to Professional Development for the Teaching Profession, Meryl Thompson; Part 06 Primary Education and Primary Teacher Education, Colin Richards, Neil Simco, Sam Twiselton; Chapter 20 Conversations and Collaboration: Primary Education as a Community of Practice, Anne Edwards;

Colin Richards, Neil Simco, Sam Twiselton