Download or read book Framework for the Inspection of Nursery Primary Middle Secondary and Special Schools written by Great Britain. Office for Standards in Education and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Special Educational Provision in the Context of Inclusion written by Janice Wearmouth and published by David Fulton Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text traces the development of special educational provision and goes on to concentrate on some of the key issues relevant to professionals currently working in the field. It looks at the recent drive towards inclusion and the implication this has for schools. In the present market-oriented context in education, there are a number of dilemmas facing schools that attempt to include all pupils and at the same time respond to the current focus on academic achievement in a national climate of competition and accountability. The book offers practical examples of ways to resolve these dilemmas at the level of the LEA, the school, the classroom and the individual child. Part One gives an overview of special and inclusive education, current thinking around issues related to equal opportunities, and how this affects schools. It also illustrates how one Local Education Authority has tried to promote a policy of inclusion in its schools. Part Two includes a discussion of the challenges facing teachers in schools who attempt to put current national policies related to inclusion into practice and provides practical examples of whole-school and classroom initiatives to support the learning of groups of pupils and individuals within them. Included are chapters on professional development for teachers of special educational needs, classroom strategies for teacher and pupil support teachers and advice on differentiation, OFSTED and inclusive schools, the SENCO in the secondary school, and equal opportunities for all. This book will appeal to all teachers, SENCOs, head teachers and governors in every sector of the education system, parents, academics and course members on teachers' continuing professional development courses.
Download or read book Values and the Curriculum written by Jo Cairns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, educationists and experts on values, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, discuss the question of values and the curriculum in societies which are changing rapidly and in which disagreements about values are sometimes acrimonious.
Download or read book Quality Circle Time in the Secondary School written by Jenny Mosley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny Mosley's quality circle time model involves establishing an on-going, timetabled process of circle-meetings for adults and children. As a basis for teaching relationship skills, enhancing self-esteem and building a positive behaviour management and anti-bullying policy, circle time should not only increase confidence and "emotional intelligence" in pupils, but should also contribute towards a positive whole-school ethos. This classic text provides a rationale, framework and whole-school model for quality circle time specifically for secondary schools and further education colleges. Fully revised and updated, the authors offer over 100 activities and practical strategies to help build teachers' confidence and circle time skills. The book aims to enable teachers to sustain this approach within their SEAL syllabus, tutorial time, subject teaching, or as part of their work with pupils with special educational needs.
Download or read book International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing written by Terence Lovat and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by the most up-to-date research from around the world, as well as examples of good practice, this handbook analyzes values education in the context of a range of school-based measures associated with student wellbeing. These include social, emotional, moral and spiritual growth – elements that seem to be present where intellectual advancement and academic achievement are being maximized. This text comes as ‘values education’ widens in scope from being concerned with morality, ethics, civics and citizenship to a broader definition synonymous with a holistic approach to education in general. This expanded purview is frequently described as pedagogy relating to ‘values’ and ‘wellbeing’. This contemporary understanding of values education, or values and wellbeing pedagogy, fits well with recent neuroscience research. This has shown that notions of cognition, or intellect, are far more intertwined with social and emotional growth than earlier educational paradigms have allowed for. In other words, the best laid plans about the technical aspects of pedagogy are bound to fail unless the growth of the whole person – social, emotional, moral, spiritual and intellectual, is the pedagogical target. Teachers and educationalists will find that this handbook provides evidence, culled from both research and practice, of the beneficial effects of such a ‘values and wellbeing’ pedagogy.
Download or read book Managing the Business of Schools written by Iris Keating and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experienced consultants, this book explores the key themes surrounding the role of the School Business Manager, and offers guidance for dealing with the practical issues of the job. Experts in the field provide practical advice on the essential technical aspects of the role, such as managing risk, managing facilities and human resources, and the book also considers strategic issues and addresses "big questions" such as the workforce remodelling agenda and extended schools. Each chapter contains a useful summary of key points, case studies, and suggested further reading for continued study. Senior Management Team members, school governors, school business managers, students of school business management and anyone involved in and interested in the effective management of schools will find this book an invaluable source of reference.
Download or read book The Management of Child Protection Services written by Robert Sanders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, The Management of Child Protection Services is not about child abuse but about child protection. It is about the arrangements that professionals from different disciplines make to ensure they operate together effectively to protect the most vulnerable children in society. The book examines five different contexts of child protection: historical, cross-cultural, structural, managerial and professional and consideration of the operation of Area Child Protection Committees. In exploring these contexts, the book seeks to address such questions as: ‘how can universal standards be applied to protect vulnerable children whilst avoiding ethnocentrism?’ and ‘from where are derived, historically, and cross-culturally, the models of child protection adopted in the UK today?’ It also seeks to identify the different professional contexts, roles and contributions of agencies involved in child protection, with a view to promoting interdisciplinary understanding. These questions and understandings are necessary if changes currently being contemplated are to enhance the effectiveness of child protection.
Download or read book Education Contested written by Jules L. Peschar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text discusses the relationship between state, market, civil society and education, examining such topics as: development in education inspectorates; the way in which universities are stimulated to support themselves financially; and the way education prepares students for citizenship.
Download or read book Guidance on the Inspection of Nursery Primary Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the OFSTED Handbook provides Her Majesty's Chief Inspector's guidance on the inspection of nursery and primary schools in England. Written in the light of evaluation and wide consultation, it sets out the fundamentals of good inspection practice and the standards by which the work and achievements of schools are to be judged. The handbook aims to promote better reports, through inspections which are more manageable by inspectors and less of a burden for schools. It incorporates the inspection framework, the code of practice for inspectors, guidance on how inspections should be conducted and on the application of the inspection schedule. Schools should continue to find that the handbook provides a useful and accessible basis for self-review. It is available in three versions, covering nursery and primary, secondary, and special schools.
Download or read book Education for Spiritual Moral Social and Cultural Development written by Ron Best and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on successful practice, and relating such practice to theoretical insights, this comprehensive treatment of the challenge of educating children spiritually, morally, socially, and culturally offers enlightenment for individual teachers' classroom practice as well as for whole-school approaches.
Download or read book Teaching and Learning through Reflective Practice written by Tony Ghaye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, Teaching and Learning through Reflective Practice is a practical guide to enable all those involved in educational activities to learn through the practices of reflection. The book highlights the power that those responsible for teaching and learning have to appraise, understand and positively transform their teaching. Seeing the teacher as a reflective learner, the book emphasises a strengths-based approach in which positivity, resilience, optimism and high performance can help invigorate teaching, enhance learning and allow the teacher to reach their full potential. This approach busts the myth that reflection on problems and deficits is the only way to better performance. The approach of this new edition is an ‘appreciative’ one. At its heart is the exploration and illustration of four reflective questions: What’s working well? What needs changing? What are we learning? Where do we go from here? With examples drawn from UK primary teacher education, the book reveals how appreciative reflective conversations can be initiated and sustained. It also sets out a range of practical processes for amplifying success. This book will be a must have for undergraduate and PGCE students on initial teacher training programmes. It will also interest practising teachers, teacher educators and those on continuing professional development courses.
Download or read book Building Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook for Inspecting Primary and Nursery Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official guides for inspecting schools, these handbooks cover up-to-date guidance for nursery, primary, secondary and special schools within England, including guidance for self-evaluation for schools who qualify for light touch inspections, for the inspection cycle starting Jan 1 2000.
Download or read book Improvement Through Inspection written by Peter Earley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1996, the title of this book poses the question whether the motto of the Office for Standards in Education was an apt statement of its effects in practice. Beginning with the state of knowledge about OFSTED’s early impact, the Editors review the range of complementary approaches to school improvement – most of them driven by the schools themselves – that were in operation, alongside the OFSTED system of inspection at the time. The major part of the book is taken up with the main ‘quality initiatives’ that were at work in primary and secondary schools – including Investors in People, Deming, TQM, partnerships, professional competence, strategic planning and effective governorship. Each chapter examines critically – sometimes with the aid of case studies of good practice – the benefits such approaches might bring to schools in their attempts to raise standards. The book is a companion to OFSTED Inspections: The Early Experience by the same Editors, published and reissued simultaneously.
Download or read book The Whole School Audit written by Brian Drakeford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual audit by staff and governors strengthens the school development planning process. This work aims to assist schools to identify their strengths and weaknesses with respect to specific requirements of the OFSTED Framework for Inspection.
Download or read book A Whole school Behaviour Policy written by Roy Lund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text aims to provide schools with a framework for reviewing, developing and implementing a whole school of behaviour policy, which is fully in accordance with the ethos of the establishment and the school development plan and also with the OFSTED inspection evaluation criteria.
Download or read book Ofsted Inspection Handbook written by Ofsted Staff and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides guidance on inspecting schools to the new framework for inspection. It should also help schools to evaluate themselves. to inspectors on how to shape inspections to reflect the characteristics and performance of individual schools. The school's self-evaluation plays an important part in shaping the inspection. The text includes detailed benchmark descriptions to help ensure the consistency and accuracy of judgements about a school. The new Framework for inspection applies to all schools that are subject to regular inspections under section 10 of the School Inspections Act 1996.
