How To Improve Your School

This book takes a practical look at how standards in education can be raised. It cuts through jargon and shows how ideas and intentions can be translated into effective action that will help a school. This best-selling book takes a practical look at how improvements can be made in any school.It cuts through the jargon of the specialist and shows how ideas and intentions can be turned into direct actions that will help a school improve its performance and effectiveness.As well as addressing headteachers and governors, the book will also provide invaluable guidance for all those who work in and with schools. There are chapters on:*effective schools and how they have achieved their goals*leadership within schools*teaching and learning effectively*making critical interventions to secure improvement*how schools involve others to aid improvement.This is a book that no school will want to be without. It is essential reading for anyone involved in education.Tim Brighouse is Chief Education Officer for Birmingham City Council and is a national figure in education. David Woods is a Senior Education Adviser at the DfEE.

Focusing on those who are most affected by changes in educational policy and systems - the pupils - this volume draws on empirical evidence from a number of research projects and distils this into a compelling account of contemporary schooling from the pupils' perspective. This fascinating book focuses on those who are most affected by changes in education policy and systems—the pupils. It draws on empirical evidence from a number of research projects and distils this into a compelling account of contemporary schooling from the pupils' perspective. Jean Rudduck calls for a shift in the way we currently view young people at school and sets out a case for radically rethinking aspects of school organization, relationships and practice. Her research confirms that we need to see pupils differently, to re-assess their capabilities and reflect on what they are capable of being and doing.