ABSTRACT

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

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I The Big Picture

chapter 1|12 pages

The Big Picture

What children told us about their work with trainee teachers

chapter 2|8 pages

Why children’s perceptions?

The context for the inquiry

part |2 pages

Part II Roles and responsibilities

chapter 3|12 pages

Drama: pupils’ perceptions of the power game

Pupils’ perceptions of the power

chapter 4|14 pages

Student teachers in the infant classroom

Many hands make light work?

part |2 pages

Part III Do pupils learn what trainee teachers teach?

chapter 5|10 pages

Geography

Can’t you tell us the answer Miss?

chapter 6|10 pages

The properties that matter

Children’s perceptions of student teachers in science

chapter 7|8 pages

Technology

Wheels within wheels

chapter 8|9 pages

1066 and all that!: pupil misconceptions in history MIKE MUGGINS

Pupil misconceptions in history

chapter 9|10 pages

Literacy activities

Purposeful tasks or ways of keeping busy?

chapter 10|7 pages

Mathematics

Can trainees count?

part |2 pages

Part IV New faces, new ideas?

chapter 11|12 pages

Art and design

A view from the classroom

chapter 12|8 pages

Music as you like it?

chapter 13|8 pages

Information and communication technology

Who dares wins!

chapter 14|10 pages

Physical education

Challenging stereotypes

part |2 pages

Part V Themes, dimensions and issues

chapter 15|13 pages

‘Oh no – not Jonah again!’

Is aversion to ‘Bible story’ inevitable?

chapter 16|12 pages

‘Solicitous tenderness’*

Discipline and responsibility in the classroom

chapter 17|8 pages

Please Sir! Yes Miss!

chapter 18|9 pages

‘Miss, why are you brown?’

Some children’s perceptions of black and Asian trainee teachers in ‘all-white’ schools