Dunn is deputy headteacher of an Ofsted-rated outstanding primary school in the UK; he was part of a team that worked to bring a school in Special Measures out of the category in a year. Based on proven classroom practice, he offers all levels of primary school teachers, from novice to experienced, a toolbox of innovative, easy-to-implement strategies and activities they can incorporate into their classrooms for improved teaching effectiveness. Dunn includes techniques for building good teacher-student and student-student relationships, managing lesson planning, assessing for learning, taking a positive approach to classroom management, providing differentiation, using questions effectively, creating school-local community cohesion, starting lessons with engaging activities, including whole-group discussion to summarize a lesson, assigning purposeful homework, maximizing constructive use of teaching assistants, and monitoring one's development into an outstanding teacher. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)