Overview

This book has developed from research into initiatives for school improvement in a range of secondary schools. It considers the views of students as a starting point and then charts action being undertaken to enhance the environment of classroom and school: * to develop challenge in teaching and learning * to consider learning styles and the use of teaching strategies to meet these * to analyse the nature of successful staff student relationships * to help students to see the rationale for and importance of integration in the curriculum * to chronicle endeavours being made to achieve gender equality. The book concludes with consideration of the relationship between culture and achievement. Each chapter offers a blend of research data, real cases for discussion, contemporary literary comment and action points. Reference is also made to lines of further investigation using internet sources. It will be an invaluable text for student teachers and teachers undertaking school based in-service work.

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A distillation of good practice with case histories for discussion alongside research insights and contemporary perspectives. -- Leadership Focus Leadership in Focus 20031028

Author Information

Derek Glover is a Visiting Professor of Education at Nottingham Trent University. After 18 years' experience as the head of a large community school in Oxfordshire, he completed his PhD with the Open University and has now gone on to his 'second career' - teaching, researching and publishing extensively, particularly in the fields of school organization, financial management and the management of school reputation. He and Sue Law have previously co-written Managing Professional Development in Education and Educational Leadership and Learning. Sue Law is Professor of Education and Head of the Department of Secondary and Tertiary Education at Nottingham Trent University. After teaching in schools and colleges for 20 years, she became Director of Continuing Professional Development at Keele University, where she established innovative distance-learning MBA and MA educational management programmes. She now balances the leadership responsibilities of a large University department with researching and publishing on teachers' professional development, education management and educational policymaking.

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