Full Description
This timely new book outlines a whole-school approach to embedding a sustainable model of teaching and learning that puts the learner at the heart of the system. It provides an entire framework for ensuring all students achieve above their expectations; incorporating school vision, teacher professional development, assessment models, school culture, leadership and management, and core classroom practices.
It takes what the current research suggests does - and does not - work and builds it into a practical approach that has been tried, tested and proven to work. Each section incorporates the research, a model of how this can be embedded across a school and then a training section that allows senior leaders in schools to teach the skill-set to others to ensure it can be embedded and reviewed.
Covering all aspect of teaching and learning including curriculum design, teacher practices, assessment and leadership, the book features:
a clear planning framework that is easy to implement;
subject based case studies to exemplify good practice;
diagrams to clarify and consolidate information;
training activities throughout each chapter, also available to download at www.routledge.com/9780415831178.
Designed to be used as a training tool for both new and established teachers, this book is essential reading for senior leaders that want to equip their teachers with the skills and knowledge to create a school of outstanding classrooms.
Contents
Learning in the 21st Century; 1. Curriculum Planning; 2. Teacher Practices - the nuts and bolts; 3. Every Teacher is a Teacher of Language; 4. Assessment Models - what do we value and are we assessing it?; 5. Leadership - the framework for creating the culture
