Meeting the challenges of primary schooling / edited by Lloyd Logan and Judyth Sachs.

Teachers in primary schools deal with a wide range of issues every day. This book helps teachers to understand those issues, and how they fit in with recent government policies and initiatives. Each chapter looks at: * relevant statements of policy or initiative * how these statements fit into the c...

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Other Authors: Logan, Lloyd, Sachs, Judyth, 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Series:Educational management series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; 1 Challenges facing primary school administrators and teachers; 2 Leading and managing restructuring at the school site; 3 Strategic planning in schools; 4 Managing school development: a case study; 5 School review for improved student learning; 6 The middle years of schooling; 7 National initiatives and primary schooling; 8 Extending options for gifted and talented pupils; 9 Responding to the pupils' culture and language; 10 The gender-responsive classroom; 11 What is being learned here?
  • 12 Introducing lap-top computers in the junior school13 Discipline in the classroom; 14 Learning partnerships; 15 Alternative ways of grouping pupils for learning; 16 Building professional community and supporting teachers as learners; 17 Musing on the future of primary schooling; Index.