- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction
- 1 Why observe in the primary school?
- 2 Meet a primary school headteacher
- 3 Listen to an early childhood educator and observe children
- 4 Observation and listening case studies
- 5 Child protection and safeguarding
- 6 Ethical practices in education settings
- 7 Interviews and conversations
- 8 This session’s quiz
- 9 Summary of Session 1
- Introduction
- 1 The importance of the playground
- 2 What do children think about the school playgrounds and playtime?
- 3 Playtime supervisors
- 4 Playground design principles
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 2
- Introduction
- 1 Observing play, observing learning
- 2 Dispositions for learning
- 3 Systematic observation
- 4 Observing teaching and learning
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 3
- Introduction
- 1 Primary school children and homework
- 2 Creative homework
- 3 Home–school communication
- 4 Homework around the world
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 4
- Introduction
- 1 Technology in children’s lives
- 2 Technology affects how children learn
- 3 Schools in the digital age
- 4 Children and the internet
- 5 Play and learning online
- 6 Games in education
- 7 Digital literacy and twenty-first-century skills
- 8 This session’s quiz
- 9 Summary of Session 5
- Introduction
- 1 What do we mean by computing?
- 2 Why is computing important?
- 3 Programming
- 4 Learning through exploring and making
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 6
- Introduction
- 1 Cross-curricular projects
- 2 Planning and assessing cross-curricular projects
- 3 Creative support for children’s learning
- 4 Creative support in action
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Session 7
- Introduction
- 1 A headteacher talks about lifelong learning
- 2 Workplace learning
- 3 Learning Lives
- 4 Learning lives in the primary school
- 5 Children and adults learning together
- 6 Sketch your learning life story
- 7 This session’s quiz
- 8 Summary of Session 8
- Where next?
- Tell us what you think
- References
- Acknowledgements
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