Building the primary classroom - Toni S Bickart

Primary classrooms are just four walls until the teachers enter. Step by step, they build their classrooms: they build the environment, they build relationships with the children, they build partnerships with families, they build classroom communities and, most important, they build competent, successful learners. This text provides the framework and practical strategies primary teachers need to build great classrooms where teaching and learning are a shared responsibility.;The guide puts the best elements of classroom management and curriculum content together in one concise volume. The first part of the book defines six strategies that form a framework for making decisions and implementing a responsive curriculum. They include: knowing the child you teach, building a classroom community, establishing a classroom structure, guiding children's learning, assessing children's learning and building a partnership with families. Part Two demonstrates how to teach concepts and skills, using this framework, in six different subject areas: language and literacy, mathematical thinking, social studies, scientific thinking, technology and the arts.