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Dear Teacher We are delighted to introduce our new series for Cambridge Primary Global Perspectives Stages 4 to 6. This series is designed to help your students to develop the key skills at the heart of the curriculum. It has also been designed to support you with teaching ideas, tools and templates as you facilitate their learning journey. The series includes a write-in learner’s skills book and an accompanying teacher’s book for levels 4, 5 and 6, available both print and digitally. Each learner’s skills book is structured around the six skills of Research, Analysis, Evaluation, Reflection, Collaboration and Communication. Activities are scaffolded to help students to build their understanding and confidence as they put each skill into practice. Making a difference in the world is central to Cambridge Global Perspectives™, and the series aims to inspire students to apply their skills across the range of topics set out in the curriculum framework. Students are encouraged to record their experiences and evaluate their progress and in so doing build awareness of their learning and a record of their achievements. In developing this new series, we carried out extensive research with international Cambridge Global Perspectives™ teachers through lesson observations, interviews and work with our online research community (the Cambridge Panel) to ensure that these resources meet your teaching needs. In response to what you have told us, our resources have been specifically written to support English as a second language learners, with key command terms, key subject words, accessible language throughout and glossary definitions in context throughout the text. We have also provided support and opportunities to help you with active learning, assessment for learning and student reflection with new features that provide diagnostic questions and reflection opportunities. Our new self-evaluation checklists also help to develop responsible and self-aware learners. Core to the series are the teacher’s books, which will help you to confidently support your learners and teach the curriculum framework. For each skills-focused lesson in the learner’s skills books, there are detailed support sections in the teacher’s books. These include suggestions for starter ideas, activities, plenary sessions and wrap-up tasks, as well as activity templates and worked examples for you to use and adapt to suit your classroom needs. Reflection tips, differentiation support and a range of support for assessment for learning are also provided to help you monitor learning and assess progress. I hope that this sample will show you how our resources work together to provide a flexible and accessible set of teaching and learning resources to best meet the needs of your classroom, and provide you and your learners with the right elements for success!
Janey Webb Senior Commissioning Editor, Cambridge University Press
