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This much I know about Truly Great Primary Teachers

(and what we can learn from them)

By: John Tomsett


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PublishedNovember 2025
FormatPaperback
Size216 x 140mm
Pages200 (est)
ISBN9781785837456

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Foreword by Professor Rob Coe

Through a set of in-depth case studies, This Much I Know About Truly Great Primary Teachers (and what we can learn from them) by John Tomsett dissects the complex and beautiful art of classroom teaching.

Covering a range of school types, social contexts, pupil ages and subjects, it brings to life how nine outstanding primary teachers engage, inspire, nurture and motivate their pupils. Each detailed vignette, based on observing the teachers teach, and discussions with them, their colleagues and pupils, brings the qualities of truly great teachers to life.

Each teacher is unique in the way they teach and in how they talk about teaching. But they also have some common behaviours and attitudes that make them truly great, which John draws together, summarising what we can learn from their unbridled enthusiasm, skill and dedication to giving their pupils the very best foundation for a bright future.

Essential reading for all primary school teachers, school leaders, teacher trainers and education researchers.


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John Tomsett

John Tomsett taught for 33 years in state schools and was a teaching secondary headteacher for 18 years, latterly at Huntington Research School, York. He writes a blog called “This much I know” and has written extensively about school leadership, and developing teaching & learning. He believes that developing truly great teaching is the main responsibility of all headteachers. He has published twelve books, including: Love Over Fear: Creating a Culture for Truly Great Teaching and Mind over Matter: Improving Mental Health in our Schools.  In the Huh: Curriculum series, he collaborated with the curriculum expert Mary Myatt. He co-founded The Headteachers' Roundtable think-tank and is a popular speaker on education. He is the educational consultant supporting the development of the AI teacher coach Aristotal.


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