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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1. autor: Farrell, Michael, 1948-
Format: Książka
Język:English
Wydane: 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.