Evidence Based Primary Teaching

Jonathan Glazzard is Professor of Teacher Education, Head of Children, Education and Communities, Edge Hill University.Samuel Stones is an Associate Researcher in the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University. His research outputs are linked with the Centre for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Education and the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools. Samuel works with initial teacher training students in university and school contexts and is an Associate Leader of maths, computing, economics and business at a secondary school and sixth form college in North Yorkshire.

This text is very easy reading and clearly set out, so information is easy to access, The figures make the content easy to access for learners with SpLDs such as dyslexia and the Take 5 section is another opportunity for readers to consolidate the key messages within each chapter. The classroom exemplars are also a way of enabling trainee teachers to link theory to practice as well as practice to theory as they illustrate key concepts in action

• Early Years PedagogyHow children learnMemorySubject knowledgeModellingInclusionAssessment for learningBehaviourMetacognition