This straightforward guide to the professional standards and requirements for primary teachers illustrates the best ways of developing knowledge and how to acquire the skills needed to achieve QTS.
Meeting the Standards in Primary English will:

• explain the Standards relating to English teaching
• link the theory associated with the teaching of English to the practical application
• look in detail at the teaching of reading, fiction, writing, speaking and listening, ICT in literacy and drama
• assist the understanding of grammar and language...

Full of school-based examples supplied by practicing teachers, this accessible text:

• encourages trainees to "think beyond the standards"
• promotes the development of reflective, creative and imaginative teaching skills
• links theory with practice to show students how to apply these skills
• leads the reader through the key issues and concepts in general professional practice.

Written specifically for Professional Studies modules in primary education, this book will guide trainees in the early stages of their careers to become the...