Learning to Teach in the Primary Classroom

Anne Proctor is Principal Lecturer at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, with responsibility for the management of programmes for people preparing to teach in the Upper Primary age phase. Her particular interest is understanding the most effective ways of defining the roles of teachers and tutors in the professional preparation of student teachers. She recently completed a PhD in which she explored cooperation between teachers and tutors in the supervision of student teachers in school. The outcomes of the series of studies have been applied to the development of courses in teacher education/training and the development of mentor training programmes for teacher mentors., Margaret Entwistle trained for secondary teaching and spent fifteen years in primary classrooms. She is now a tutor in the School of Teacher Education at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. Her present interests lie in exploring ways in which student teachers develop and learn and she has recently been involved with a Profile of Professional Development to help student teachers monitor their own professional development., Brenda Judge has been headteacher of a large inner-city primary school for eight years and a primary teacher member of the Manchester Education Committee for three years. She is the initiator and co-author of 40,000Minority and Primary Majority, two booklets which prompted the establishment of primary headteacher groups across England and Wales and highlighted the inequalities of provision for primary-aged children., Sandy McKenzie-Murdoch began her career as a primary school teacher where she became acu