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Key Issues For Secondary Schools »
Authors: Michael Farrell, Trevor Kerry
ISBN-13: 9780415232555, ISBN-10: 0415232554
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Michael Farrell
Book Synopsis
'... [gives] the readers a rapid, yet incisive grasp of those major topics that form the agenda of secondary education in the early years of the 21st century.'- Professor Trevor Kerry, Vice President of the College of Teachers
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Accreditation of pupil achievement: balancing relevance and cohesiveness | 1 | |
| Assessment and its uses | 6 | |
| Attendance: how it can be improved | 10 | |
| Benchmarking: comparing like with like? | 15 | |
| Careers education and guidance and work preparation | 19 | |
| Child protection: systems and understanding | 24 | |
| Curriculum developments: balancing cohesiveness and flexibility | 29 | |
| Discipline: improving and maintaining it | 34 | |
| Failing schools: lessons to be learned | 39 | |
| Information and communications technology: keeping ahead | 44 | |
| Leadership and management: its impact in the classroom | 49 | |
| Media relationships | 55 | |
| Moral values, school ethos and pupil attitudes | 59 | |
| National and local responsibilities: a new balance | 64 | |
| Partnerships: governors, parents and the community | 72 | |
| Personal, social and health education: a communal approach | 78 | |
| Professional development: towards a systematic approach | 83 | |
| Pupil differences: gender and ethnicity | 89 | |
| Quality approaches and project management | 94 | |
| Resources and their best use | 99 | |
| School improvement plans: optimising their effect | 104 | |
| Special educational needs: some recent trends | 110 | |
| Standards and effectiveness | 116 | |
| Target setting: behind the jargon | 121 | |
| Thinking skills and research skills | 126 | |
| Transition from primary to secondary school: securing successful transfer | 131 | |
| Value added: support or illumination? | 135 | |
| Very able pupils: improving their attainment and contribution to the school | 139 | |
| Glossary (selective) | 144 | |
| Bibliography | 147 |
Subjects
Education & Teaching
Educational Levels & Settings Secondary Education
Education & Teaching Secondary Education Education, Secondary -> Great Britain
Educational Levels & Settings Secondary EducationEducation & Teaching
Secondary Education Education, Secondary -> Great Britain
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