How to be an Outstanding Primary School Teacher (Outstanding Teaching) [Paperback]

David Dunn has written a highly challenging and yet supportive text for primary school professionals. His book surveys all the essential elements of high quality professional practice and explores, in a practical and purposeful way, strategies to help move teachers to the highest levels of professional practice. This book will be a powerful resource for personal reflection and planning, as a support for performance management and as the basis of shared professional learning and development. --John West-Burnham, Professor of Educational Leadership at St Mary s University College, Twickenham, UK

This book contains many excellent, practical, and often fun ideas to stimulate pupils learning and it is written in an encouraging and cheerful style which carries the reader along. Over many years in the classroom, David Dunn has experimented with many teaching tactics and ideas and shares his successes, and failures, with his audience. It will be a very useful reference book for all teachers, particularly those who are new to the profession. --Claire Gillies, Observer on Teachers TV 'Good to Outstanding'

This book has all the ingredients you need to deliver an outstanding lesson in the context of twenty first century education. Read it carefully, use it with rigour and then add your own passion personality and flair. The outcome will be outstanding teachers and outstanding learners --Will Ryan, Primary Education Consultant

"'David Dunn has written a highly challenging and yet supportive text for primary school professionals. His book surveys all the essential elements of high quality professional practice and explores, in a practical and purposeful way, strategies to help move teachers to the highest levels of professional practice. This book will be a powerful resource for personal reflection and planning, as a support for performance management and as the basis of shared professional learning and development.' John West-Burnham"

This is a clear and concise guide to becoming an outstanding primary teacher in the true Ofsted meaning of the word. All of the time. Every lesson. This book contains lots of easy-to-introduce activities and techniques that will propel satisfactory and good lessons into the outstanding category - not just when being observed, but all the time. And the best news? This book tells you how to do it without spending lots more time planning, researching and preparing 'out of this world' lessons. All of the activities have been tried-and-tested in the classroom and are divided into three areas: ideas for embedding or preparing 'by this time tomorrow', 'by this time next month' and 'by this time next term' so you can choose the activity you have time for. Each chapter focuses on a perennial issue in teaching and in inspection, such as differentiation, working with your Teaching Assistant and Assessment for Learning. There are dozens of starters and plenaries and useful websites, and the author's own website offers resources to save you even more time. It is a must for all primary school teachers who want to become outstanding, not just for the inspectors but for every child they teach. "Books in the Outstanding Teaching" series contain lots of easy-to-introduce ideas and techniques to propel satisfactory and good teaching professionals into the outstanding category - not just when being observed, but all the time. And the best news? These books explain how to do it without spending lots more time planning, researching and preparing. Edited by the Deputy Head of an Ofsted-rated Outstanding school, all the activities have been tried-and-tested in schools. Each chapter focuses on a different perennial issue in teaching and in inspection, such as differentiation, Assessment for Learning and self-evaluation, and are divided into ideas that are quick and easy to set up, a bit more time needed and more preparation required, so the reader can choose the activity they have time for. As well as starters and plenaries, there are templates and other resources online to save practitioners even more time. It is a must for all teachers and leaders who want to become outstanding, not just for the inspectors but for every child they teach.

David Dunn is Deputy Headteacher of Pedmore CE Primary School - an Ofsted-rated outstanding Primary school. He is also an Advanced Skills Teacher, and previously worked as part of a team that brought a school in Special Measures out of the category in 12 months.