Key issues for primary schools /
Michael Farrell gives a series of briefings on the main issues in primary education and the implications for schools. Presented in an A-Z format, readers can quickly find topics of immediate or particular interest.
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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Spis treści:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Admissions: towards greater transparency and equity
- Appraisal: an integrated system
- Assessment complexities
- Attendance: improving pupil attendance
- Baseline assessment: strengths and limitations
- Behaviour and its improvement
- Benchmarking: a machete not a scalpel
- Bullying: not in our school
- Child protection: awareness and procedures
- Classroom management: developing interrelated skills
- Curriculum changes
- Differentiation: the importance of planning
- Direct teaching: some strengths and weaknesses
- Early years: nursery developments and reception classes
- Efficiency of the school and how it may be improved
- Emotional and behavioural difficulties
- English as an additional language (EAL): guidelines and confusions
- Equal opportunities: beyond the platitudes
- Governing bodies: clarity about their role
- Group work: learning together
- Head teachers: leadership and management
- Health and safety: a manageable framework
- Homework: the importance of whole-school planning
- Inclusion: ideology or pragmatism?
- Information and communications technology: exciting developments
- Initial teacher training: routes and structures
- Inspection: getting the most from it
- Learning resources and their full use
- Literacy: a national strategy
- Marketing the primary school
- Media management for the school
- Numeracy
- Organisation of pupils in school (including class size)
- Parents and the community: improving partnership
- Planning for teaching and learning
- Project management in primary education
- Research: action research in the school
- School improvement plans within strategic planning
- Security of the school
- Sex education: steering a steady course
- Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development: complex interrelationships
- Staff development including newly qualified teachers
- Standards: the new watchword
- Support for children: maximising outside help
- Target setting
- Teaching assistants and associates
- Topic work as an approach to the curriculum
- Value added measures and their relation to league tables
- Very able pupils
- Bibliography.