Being an Effective Primary School Teacher – A book by Cath Delve

Cath’s new book ‘Being an Effective Primary School Teacher’ is finally here.

An A-Z textbook for teachers, it contains all the techniques for good practice she picked up across 28 years of teaching and 13 years of training.

It includes guidance support and clarity on the following aspects of teaching and learning:

  • Annual Events
  • Balance
  • Continuous and enhanced provision including ‘Missions’ in KS2
  • Displays
  • Evidence (including ‘catching the learning’ that doesn’t go into a book)
  • Focused tasks
  • Group working
  • Homework
  • Independence
  • Jobs-(including time management)
  • Keeping control- (behaviour management)
  • Long term topics
  • Monitoring
  • New ideas and new initiatives managing change
  • Organisation and funding of resources
  • Pupil voice
  • Questioning
  • Roleplay
  • Support staff
  • Timetabling
  • Using the outdoors
  • Visits and visitors
  • Whole school (consistency)
  • XRAY-(forensically reflecting on your classroom)
  • Your room-(effective environments)
  • Zero tolerance-(non-negotiables)

(£50 plus £5 postage and packaging)

£55.00

Target Group: Primary Teachers

Course Presenter: Cath Delve

FOUNDATION PHASE/ OUTDOOR LEARNING/ WHOLE SCHOOL ISSUES - Cath provides help, support and guidance to schools and local authorities all over Wales. She is a published author and has 26 years teaching experience in three different schools. She was a deputy headteacher of two and an acting head of one. She is passionate about the wellbeing of children and outdoor learning and presents a wide range of training courses across different areas of the curriculum. Some of her initiatives-such as Messy Monday, Freaky Friday, Igloo and Missions-have been implemented and used by schools all over Wales and even been introduced in England. Alongside her book, she has produced a wide range of resources to support teachers and schools. As well as being a member of the Collective Learning team she is also an independent education consultant, working alongside schools in a variety of ways all over Wales to help them to move forward in every way. Search for Courses

Course Location: This is a physical resource that will be posted out

The resource will be posted out to the address given when completing the order, after full payment has been received.  (For schools, an invoice will be emailed with the school's number automatically, which can be paid by Bacs.) Postal orders typically take 3-5 working days.