Böcker i School Effectiveness S.-serien

This text explores what effective teaching is and offers a range of practical suggestions and handy tips for new entrants.

Designed to develop practice in line with OFSTED and DfEE thinking, this book aims to support Heads of Department in the development of management skills. It contains practical advice and checklists for the management of resources and staff, teaching and learning activities.

"Transforming Teaching and Learning" describes in theoretical and practical detail how the widely acclaimed Critical Skills Programme addresses all the current priority isssues of UK education in a uniquely powerful and comprehensive way.

This work shows teachers in primary, middle and secondary schools how to use pupils' performance data to enhance teaching and learning. It provides advice on analysing performance data, measuring progress, predicting future attainment, setting targets and ensuring continuity and progression.

This book gives examples of good practice and provides "real" solutions and case studies to support the implementation of strategies to raise achievement.

This book has been written by teachers for teachers to: highlight key issues emerging from recent discoveries about the brain provide practical strategies that apply this new understanding in the classroom help increase pupil motivation, improve learning and raise attainment. Our understanding of the brain and the learning process is greater today than ever before. Strategies for Closing the Learning Gap applies this new knowledge and the resulting advances in learning approaches to the everyday classroom. Presented in the same easy-to-read style as Mike Hughes' Closing the Learning Gap, this practical book is ideal for teacher to browse through during the lunch hour or non-contact periods. With over 40 years' combined teaching experience and a wealth of knowledge gained through training and supporting schools across the country, Mike Hughes and Andy Vass provide a fund of effective down-to-earth ideas that have been successfully implemented and refined in the classroom.

This text offers a framework in which the intuitions of individual teachers have been synthesised into a broader understanding of how learning happens. It suggests a holistic model, which strives to integrate a number of learning theories.

This work takes the principles of how to enhance learning, as established in many other books in this series, one step further. It applies these principles to staff, to staff development and finally to management and leadership.