PGCE Primary Science

Initial teacher training is the first stage in your professional development as a teacher. This book will support you in identifying strengths and areas for further development, and help you achieve the Professional Standards for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Providing a combination of theoretical study and practical experiences, it will help you develop as a reflective and critical practitioner. Recognising the variety of experiences and learning with which trainees start their courses, this book is structured around a flexible needs assessment process. Each chapter contains a core issue of effective science teaching and provides you with a framework of activities within which you can develop as a competent primary school teacher. The flexible structure of this book will support trainees studying on a range of routes but particularly those working on employment-based, flexible, modular, part-time and full-time PGCE courses.