Primary classrooms are just four walls until the teachers enter. Step by step, they build their classrooms: They build the environment, they build relationships with the children, they build partnerships with families, they build classroom communities, and most important, they build competent, successful learners. This acclaimed new book provides the framework and practical strategies primary teachers need to build great classrooms where teaching and learning are a shared responsibility.Building the Primary Classroom puts the best elements of classroom management and curriculum content together in one concise volume. The first part of the book defines six strategies that form a framework for making decisions and implementing a responsive curriculum. They include: knowing the child you teach, building a classroom community, establishing a classroom structure, guiding children's learning, assessing children's learning, and building a partnership with families. Part II demonstrates how to teach concepts and skills, using this framework, in six different subject areas: language and literacy, mathematical thinking, social studies, scientific thinking, technology, and the arts.Join the Discussion The Primary Classroom Discussion Group Are you looking to network with other first, second, and third grade teachers about the "real world" of the classroom? A place where you can talk about what structure is all about, energize your long-term studies, and get help from experts and colleagues on challenges we all face in our classrooms? If so, then the Primary Classroom Discussion Group is the place for you. Join this free online community to share insights and have your questions answered by Toni Bickart, Judy Jablon, Diane Trister Dodge, Teaching Strategies' staff, and your colleagues from around the world who are using Building The Primary Classroom: A Complete Guide to Teaching and Learning. To Subscribe: Send an e-mail to: majordomo@bookzone.com Subject: leave blank Message: SUBSCRIBE PrimaryClassroom Note: Make sure you spell PrimaryClassroom as one word. or register at the Teaching Strategies web site: www.TeachingStrategies.com/educators/ED_index.html Read Less