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Key issues for primary schools /

This book gives a series of briefings on the main issues in primary education and the implications for schools. Presented in a handy A-Z format, readers can quickly find topics of immediate or particular interest. 'I want advice to tell me where the sharks are in the water' one head teache...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farrell, Michael, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.