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1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Contents |
Excellence in Education: the making of great schools; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 What makes a great school?; Chapter 2 Starting out: the transition from primary to secondary school; Chapter 3 The drive for continuous improvement; Chapter 4 How to turn around a failing school; Chapter 5 Accountability, transparency and choice: the value of specialism; Chapter 6 Using data to improve performance; Chapter 7 Teamwork: teachers, trainees and teaching assistants; Chapter 8 Broad and balanced learning; Chapter 9 Term times, timetables and changing classrooms |
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Chapter 10 Discipline and attendanceChapter 11 Inspection and audit; Chapter 12 Provision for children with special educational needs; Chapter 13 Schools helping schools: the value of partnerships; Chapter 14 Turning the rhetoric of school choice into reality; Chapter 15 Lessons from abroad; Chapter 16 Good schools manage their finances well and learn how to raise sponsorship; Chapter 17 New ways of learning using ICT and structural change; Chapter 18 Can we transform our schools?; Appendix 1 How to calculate the value added of a secondary school |
| Summary |
A thorough examination of the characteristics of a high- performing school, this book is written by Sir Cyril Taylor (Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust) and Conor Ryan (a former adviser at the DfES to David Blunkett). It draws on numerous case studies of successful schools, as well as showing how previously failing schools have been turned around. Looking at such areas as leadership, staffing, target-setting, discipline and order, curriculum innovation and individual learning, the book offers a blueprint to headteachers and others trying to develop excellent schools |
| Notes |
Appendix 2 Survey of best practice in leading specialist schoolsIndex |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Education -- England
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School management and organization -- England
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Education
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School management and organization
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England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ryan, Conor
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| ISBN |
9781135396923 |
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1135396922 |
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