The ITT Core Content Framework: What Trainee Primary School Teachers Need to Know

This core, concise guide sets out the Core Content requirements for accredited Initial Teacher Training in England (the Core Content Framework (CCF)).

It outlines, for primary trainees, what is expected of them - exploring what they need to ’

*Learn that’ and

’*Learn how to’.

This second edition includes case studies in all chapters exemplifying good practice and making clear links between theory and practice. Also includes a new chapter on the Early Career Framework, supporting new teachers into their first years in the classroom.

Jonathan Glazzard is Professor of Teacher Education and Head of Primary and Childhood Education at Edge Hill Univsersity. Jonathan′s teaching focuses on special educational needs and disability as well as broader aspects of inclusion. Jonathan is particularly interested in aspects of social justice, including mental health, LGBTQ+ inclusion and race equality in schools.

Samuel Stones is an Associate Researcher in the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University. His research outputs are linked with the Centre for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Education and the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools. He also works with initial teacher training students in university and school contexts and is an Associate Leader of maths, computing, economics and business at a secondary school and sixth form college in North Yorkshire.