Who Am I Teaching?

How a better understanding of children improves primary teaching and learning
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5296-8491-9
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 497 g

Who are the children you are teaching?

It is easy amidst the termly chaos to lose sight of the importance of every single daily interaction that takes place between you as a primary school teacher, and the learners in your class.

In this book, educator Dr Poppy Gibson offers a ‘deep dive’ into some of the complexities children may bring to your classroom. Understanding the diverse nature of our primary school children and their experiences is essential if we are to fully engage and support them as learners.

This book brings essential professional learning to teachers. It explores children’s development, mental health, wellbeing, community, identity, trauma, communication challenges and more. It offers practical advice for classroom teaching to ensure and enhance Quality First Teaching.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, Poppy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Childhood in the 21st century
3. Children and their communities
4. Attachment
5. Trauma, loss and grief
6. Depression and anxiety
7. Neurodiversity
8. Gender identity
9. Authority
10. SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities)
11. Very able children
12. Phobias
13. Hard to communicate
14. Wellbeing

Über Autor(innen)

Gibson, Poppy
Dr Poppy Gibson is a Lecturer in Education at the Open University, England. After eleven years teaching and leading in primary schools around London, Poppy moved into Higher Education to work on primary education degrees, supporting students taking their steps to become primary school teachers. Poppy’s research centres on wellbeing and mental health in education; and promoting positive outcomes for all of our learners through inclusion and the fostering of safe spaces where students can thrive.