• How will I get through the first term?
• When will I feel like a 'real' teacher?
• What can I expect from my first years in teaching?

By illustrating and exploring early experiences in teaching, this book helps primary teachers to understand their early professional development and learning and helps them to reflect on their own practice as well as that of others, offering a source of practical support throughout the important early years of their careers.

Beginning Primary Teaching is essential reading for all new primary teachers, including those completing initial teacher training, newly qualified and early career teachers, as well as the growing number entering teaching through employment-based routes.

Angela Jacklin is a senior lecturer in education and the Director of Student Support in the Sussex Institute at the University of Sussex. She is an experienced teacher, teacher educator and researcher in the fields of primary and special education with a particular interest in inclusion. Vivienne Griffiths is a senior lecturer in education and the Director of Initial Teacher Education in the School of Education at the University of Sussex. She is an experienced teacher of English and drama on the PGCE and GTP programmes and helped to develop the primary GTP with East Sussex LEA. Carol Robinson is a research fellow and lecturer in education in the School of Education at the University of Sussex. She is an experienced teacher and researcher in primary, secondary and special education, including work with teaching assistants and pupil voice.