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SLT Managers briefcase Behaviour
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- The government’s guide to behaviour Briefcase 1: Guidance for your behaviour policy Briefcase 2: Teachers’ powers Briefcase 3: Guidance for governors Briefcase 4: Advice for school leaders and governing bodies on bullying Briefcase 5: Anti-bullying policy example
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- 14/12/2011
Increasingly separate Scotlands school system
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- A radical gulf is opening up between Scottish and English high school system. Ken Cunningham looks at the educational border that now lies between Scotland and the rest of the UK
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- 14/12/2011
Can political interference ever end?
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- Deputy Head teacher, Gavin White, looks at the debilitating effect of party politics upon our education system and suggests a way to end the nightmare
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- 16/12/2011
A year of living dangerously
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- How would one view the changes to our education system during 2011 if one were an alien arriving from another planet, or actually even just from Scotland, where they have escaped Govism and the huge structural break-up of the system he has introduced
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- 23/12/2011
SLT Contents 3.45
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- SLT Contents 3.45
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- 23/12/2011
SLT News 3.45
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- Head teacher qualification to be overhauled. Calculators in primary schools to be reviewed. Most councils are cutting school transport. 100,000 children could be self-harming by 2020. Half of children with 11-plus refused grammar school place. Academies must consider e-safety issues. Tackling child sexual exploitation must be a priority.
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- 23/12/2011
A new breed of primary teacher is born
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- The Government’s new Initial Teacher Training strategy is propsing to find places for subject specialist primary teachers and to attract them with Scholarships and then by a goo degree. But will this create inspirational teachers?
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- 23/12/2011
Vocational qualifications and performance tables
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- The current performance table system has created some perverse incentives. To address this, the government has announced sweeping changes to 14-16 qualifications, which come into force from 2014. We look at the implications…
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- 23/12/2011
Leadership Briefing Report update 3.45
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- Language And Literacy Attainment Of Pupils - Early Years & Through KS2. The Education Act 2011: Restoring order in the classrooms? Evaluation Of The Impact Of Changes To A Levels And GCSEs.
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- 23/12/2011
Hooray: A new Ofsted framework!
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- Chris Watkins believes that the new Ofsted framework is so poor it will eventually undermine the whole Ofsted Project. It is therefore, a big step forward in his view
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- 23/12/2011
Tackling the under-performing teacher
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- Every school has them. But not every school deals with them exceptionally. In the first of a series of articles on the under-performing teacher Graham Handscomb address this often taboo subject
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- 23/12/2011
Performance Management or Performance Coaching? A School Case Study
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- Mike King summarises his evaluation of a Bristol school’s performance management experience and uses this to make the case for a shift towards a performance coaching approach
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- 23/12/2011
Can political interference ever end?
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- Deputy Head teacher, Gavin White, looks at the debilitating effect of party politics upon our education system and suggests a way to end the nightmare
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- 23/12/2011
Leading through the chaos
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- Schools are becoming more autonomous. But Local authorities are going and solutions could become a serious danger for low and high performing schools alike, warns David Woods
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- 23/12/2011
The Leadership Paradox
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- Leadership is at its greatest when it gives away its power, argues Professor John MacBeath
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- 23/12/2011
Increasingly separate: Scotland’s school system
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- A radical gulf is opening up between Scottish and English high school system. Ken Cunningham looks at the educational border that now lies between Scotland and the rest of the UK
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- 23/12/2011
When and how collaborative professional development works
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- What can collaborative professional development do for you and how ready are you to take advantage of its benefits? Mark Hadfield and Christopher Chapman show the way.
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- 23/12/2011
Thinking in context
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- TASC (Thinking Actively in a Social Context) is a universal problemsolving process – a powerful tool to promote differentiated learning experiences. Belle Wallace, Director of TASC international, explains.
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- 23/12/2011
Embracing new technology at William Beamont High
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- Last year William Beamont Community High School unveiled a hi-tech classroom which gave staff, parents and pupils a glimpse into the future of learning. We went along to see the future at work
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- 23/12/2011
Making maths more engaging with technology
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- Good maths learning needs knowledgeable teachers, who can draw on students’ understanding, involve them in discussion, and engage students in a variety of complex tasks. Technology is it the essential tool for learning mathematics in the 21st century
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- 23/12/2011
Against Parents
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- In Every Child Update we’ve covered many examples of early intervention. In this article Dr. Ellie Lee explains why we should be very cautious about adopting this ‘prejudice against parents’ policy
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- 23/12/2011
The indispensable SBM
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- The role of the School Business Manger is extending far beyond its original conception. Katie Paxton-Doggett looks in too their impact
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- 23/12/2011
School Improvement is Everybody’s Business Using research to extend professionalism, increase participation and enrich development
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- Judy Durrant sees research as being essential to school improvement. She shows how inclusive enquiry, leadership and learning can maximise engagement and build the capacity for improvement
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- 23/12/2011
Manager’s Briefcase
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- This issue’s briefcase focuses on the government’s guide to behaviour. Find advice on establishing your school’s behaviour policy; a summary of teachers’ powers and guidance for governors in the given context.
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- 23/12/2011
Introducing ICT in the early years
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- Computer based resources have almost endless possibilities for supporting the development of the whole child, and a vital resource for all areas of development in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework, suggests Amy Stancer
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- 23/12/2011
The Canteen – an extension of the classroom
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- Cases of obesity in children are growing. Nothing seems to be working, so what else can we try? This ground-breaking research makes some controversial suggestions.
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- 23/12/2011
What are we testing for?
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- British children are the unhappiest in Europe – and much of this is down to our outmoded and damaging system of testing, says Aileen Brindley
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- 23/12/2011
How the young mind works
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- Dr Sue Lyle looks at the work of an inspirational teacher and a cognitive scientist whose practice and theory in imaginative play provides the evidence to revolutionise the EYFS
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- 23/12/2011
