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What Every Parent Should Know About Education How knowing the facts can help your child succeed.
A walk through all the most important issues in education, comparing commonly-held beliefs with simple summaries of the evidence, providing you with clear, jargon-free information.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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St Albans :
Critical Publishing,
2021.
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| Colección: | Practical Teaching.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Meet the authors
- 1. Why should I learn more about education?
- Parents and the education debate
- Question 1: How can parents help a child be successful in school?
- Being knowledgeable about education
- Collaborating with the school
- Question 2: Do people who work in education agree on what good education looks like?
- It is time to revisit what you know about education
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Bibliography
- 2. School choice
- Key information about your choice of school
- What are some of the most common questions about school choice?
- Question 1: What is 'school choice'?
- Geographical location and school choice
- Question 2: What are the similarities and differences between the types of school available?
- Academies
- Question 3: Why and how do schools select pupils?
- Single-gender schools
- Private schools
- Question 4: How can Ofsted reports help inform school-choice decisions?
- What is Ofsted?
- Reading Ofsted reports
- The 'call'
- The inspection
- Do Ofsted ratings reflect the quality of education my child will receive?
- Question 5: Where can I find good sources of dependable information about the schools I'm considering?
- Triangulate multiple viewpoints
- Ask school leaders and teachers about the things that really make a difference to students' learning
- Creating a supportive classroom environment
- Classroom management
- Getting students to think hard
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Bibliography
- 3. Learning
- Key information
- What do you need to know about how we learn?
- Question 1: Why haven't we learnt something once we've experienced it?
- Question 2: How does memory work?
- Working and long-term memory
- Question 3: Are skills more important than knowledge?
- Why knowledge matters
- How should we learn skills?
- Question 4: Do we all learn in different ways?
- Surely you're not suggesting that all students are identical?
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Bibliography
- 4. Assessment and testing
- Key information
- Question 1: What is the difference between 'assessment' and 'testing'?
- Assessment
- Tests
- Question 2: How do teachers use assessment and testing in the classroom?
- Pre-flight checks
- In-flight checks
- Hinge questions
- The importance of surprise in assessment and testing
- Feedback
- Question 3: Are marking and grades useful for my child's learning?
- Marking
- Grades
- Looking behind the grade
- When can grades be useful?
- Question 4: What tests do children have to take in primary and secondary school?
- Year 1 phonics check
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Bibliography
- 5. Putting it into practice in the classroom and at home
- Time to reflect
- The strategies explored in this chapter
- Strategy 1: Test yourself to commit knowledge to memory
- How might a teacher use this strategy?