Leading Improving Primary Schools

Leading Improving Primary Schools
Author: Geoff Southworth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135709041

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Focuses on leadership for school improvement, looking at how heads and deputies lead, or might lead, their school's improvment efforts. This concise book, with practical illustrations, is relevant to Teacher Training Agency courses for the National Professional Qualification for headteachers, and draws upon the principles and frameworks the TTA has introduced for its headteacher programmes.

Managing Improving Primary Schools

Managing Improving Primary Schools
Author: Colin Conner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135708908

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A practical handbook which senior staff in primary schools can use to support their activities in evidence-based management. There is increased emphasis on teachers monitoring the quality of teaching and learning, the Teacher Training Agency's direction is towards teaching as a research-based profession, and there is greater need to assess learning gains and evaluate year-on-year progress in schools. For headteachers, deputy heads, managers, Key Stage coordinators and subject coordinators this book will provide the guidance they need to conduct and act upon quality reviews and evidence- based analyses of pupils' learning and the quality of teaching.

Improving the Primary School

Improving the Primary School
Author: Mrs Joan Dean
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2005-06-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134702205

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This book is a practical and informative guide on how to improve your primary school. It is aimed at those in leadership positions: headteachers, senior staff, advisors, inspectors and education officers. Aimed specifically at the primary school, this book: * links research to classroom practice for results * appeals to those in leadership roles * is concise, readable and of great practical use * provides the reader with information that can improve the individual school.

Primary School Leadership in Context

Primary School Leadership in Context
Author: Geoff Southworth
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780415303958

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In this important new book, Geoff Southworth, a leading researcher in headship, specifically addresses how school size impacts on the role of the headteacher.

Improving School Leadership, Volume 1 Policy and Practice

Improving School Leadership, Volume 1 Policy and Practice
Author: Pont Beatriz
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2008-07-29
Genre:
ISBN: 926404471X

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Based on an OECD study of school leadership practices and policies around the world, this book identifies four policy levers and a range of policy options to help governments improve school leadership now and build sustainable leadership for the future.

EBOOK: Improving Schools Through Teacher Leadership

EBOOK: Improving Schools Through Teacher Leadership
Author: Alma Harris
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2004-12-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0335225705

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It is now widely accepted that improving schools invest in teacher leadership and build the capacity for improvement by distributing leadership responsibilities to teachers. In primary, secondary and special schools, teachers are uniquely placed to influence the quality of teaching and learning and they are important gatekeepers to development and change. This book explores how teacher leadership is an intrinsic and important part of school and classroom improvement. It investigates teacher leadership in action and considers the roles, responsibilities and influence of teachers who lead. It considers the implications of teacher leadership for teachers’ professional development and focuses on ways in which this important form of leadership can be fostered and enhanced. The central message in this book is that teachers play a critical role in leading improvement in the classroom and school level and that this form of leadership contributes directly to raising achievement among learners. This book is crucial reading for all those who are concerned with teacher and school development, school leadership and school improvement.

Leading the Curriculum in the Primary School

Leading the Curriculum in the Primary School
Author: Neil Burton
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2005-11-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781412902533

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'The book is a good introduction to anyone taking on middle leadership in the primary sector, and will be useful to heads and deputies who are considering how to organise their schools in the face continuing change and increasing accountability' - Times Educational Supplement In recent years, there has been an acknowledgement of the need for teachers to develop management and leadership skills in addition to specialized subject knowledge, to achieve a state where they possess transferable skills that can be employed in co-ordinating any area of the primary curriculum. This book will provide trainees, NQTs and experienced teachers with the management and leadership techniques that they will need in order to develop, with appropriate experience and opportunities, into subject leaders or effective members of a senior management team. The emphasis in this book is on the practical techniques and strategies of curriculum leadership. At all levels of experience, from establishing a direction through working with resources to leading and motivating colleagues, this book deals with the theoretical, practical and technological issues facing teachers as they create and manage curricula. This book is an invaluable resource for trainees and teachers at every level as they confront the rapidly shifting demands of their profession.

Policy and Practice in Primary Education

Policy and Practice in Primary Education
Author: Robin Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135100438

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Detailed accounts of two influential initiatives of the 1990s, whose educational and political lessons remain highly relevant: systemic and pedagogic reform in one of Britain’s largest cities, and the controversial ‘three wise men’ government enquiry into primary teaching to which it led. Alexander's controversial and widely-read report on primary education in Leeds has now been revised as a major study of policy initiatives in primary education and their impact on practice. The book examines an ambitious programme of local reform aimed at improving teaching and learning in the primary schools of one of Britain's largest cities. It addresses important questions about children's needs, the curriculum, classroom practice and school management. When first published, Robin Alexander's report was hailed as `seminal' and `the most important document since Plowden' but it was also quoted and misquoted in support of widely opposed political and media agendas. This new edition retains Part I from the first edition, detailing the impact of Leeds LEA's programme for educational reform. However, it also provides a totally new and greatly extended Part II, which gives an insider's account of the sequel to the Leeds report - the government's 1992 'three wise men' report. There is also a new introduction.