Stand Up and Be Counted provides middle leaders with increased knowledge, understanding and confidence in the leadership process. It examines the qualities that enable middle leaders to lead effectively and have a positive impact on the vision and culture of their school. With clear explanations of leadership theory, chapters cover a wide range of topics such as recruitment, coaching staff, crisis management, teamwork, setting standards, dealing with inspections, and evaluating both your own and staff performance. Full of real examples of leadership situations in schools and opportunities to reflect, this book will help middle leaders to develop the habits and skills they need to be successful in their roles. This inspirational and conceptual book: acknowledges the essentials of leadership and decision-making; highlights how teachers become leaders, including the initial status of followership; discusses the good habits and skills that teachers can adopt to prepare themselves for leadership roles; identifies key concepts for middle leaders such as vision, inspiration, courage, and self-belief; addresses the need to be a visionary and lead from the front: to be courageous. Covering all aspects of leadership and using examples from various of walks of life to illuminate the role of a leader, this book will be of great interest to middle leaders across the primary and secondary sectors as well as subject leaders looking to increase their knowledge and confidence in their development.
With this text, Trevor Kerry examines the place of questioning in the classroom and identifies why questions need to be a key part of the teacher's skills.
Cutting-edge analysis, guidance and new approaches to learning for teachers and those in education management who are dealing with rapid changes in the current education system.
This text addresses traditional skills for classroom management, as well as adapting these skills for modern schools and adopting new ones for the future. Questioning and explaining are two vital areas for teaching, and this book explores them, with ideas for everyday classroom use.
Every school has a mission statement based on values and ethical beliefs. Ethics for Teachers and Middle Leaders sets out a way of thinking through the key issues of ethics in teaching and shows how a school’s ethical values can be translated by students and staff into action. It is designed to help rehearse certain ethical dilemmas and guide teacher leaders in helping others to think through and develop appropriate behaviours. Chapters consider the role of ethics in all aspects of school life including teacher professionalism, teaching methods, lesson planning and assessment. This book not only examines everyday concerns such as class management and presenting curriculum ethically, but also touches upon emerging issues in e-learning, career building, leadership and school governance. Packed full of real examples from schools and opportunities to reflect, the book will help readers to understand how their behaviour, decisions and advice to others might be guided and to avoid some of the common pitfalls in school. This insightful book will instil confidence in teachers and middle leaders as they face such ethical dilemmas in their daily work.
Exploring both the essential skills and the key issues of infant teaching, this book offers student and practising teachers a range of exercises and activities which are designed to promote their own professional development. The skills covered include coping with play, the teaching of number, pre-reading and early reading, and raising early scientific awareness. Issues in the management of learning are also discussed, such as classroom organization, making effective use of ancillary help, and the aims of a curriculum.
Mastering Deputy Headship is essential reading for anyone who is currently a deputy head teacher or aspires to become a deputy head. It sets out not only to identify but address the issues facing newly appointed deputy heads. Drawing on the experience of those who are, and have been, deputies, it examines the skills and practice that enable the role to be handled with dexterity and success. From the new Leadership Skills in Education Management SeriesMastering Deputy Headship uses a variety of case studies, advice and practical activities and describes how to: cope with the first day and week in the role of deputy head build good working relationships with your head teacher develop the role the deputy head teacher within your school develop good relationships with other staff, and deal with parents and governors be an effective leader including how to improve your chairing skills, speak in public, and mentor and appraise and interview other members of staff manage time effectively and cope with learning, teaching and curriculum responsibilities help manage a budget and handle your schools finances. This invaluable book is recommended reading for all actual and aspiring deputy head teachers, school governors, advisers, inspectors, in-house trainers and students on education management courses. "Trevor Kerry has many years of experience as teacher, researcher, trainer and manager. This is a valuable, well written book on the craft of an important but neglected constituency." Mr T Wragg, University of Exeter
As the initial training of teachers becomes increasingly school-based, and as schools and colleges develop formal induction programmes for their newly qualified teachers, the role of the teacher mentor is fast becoming a pivotal one in teacher education. Individual sections look at mentoring as it relates to:- * Initial Training * Induction * Assessment * Whole institution staff development Throughout, the emphasis is on the ways in which mentoring contributes at all points in the continuum of professional development. Anyone involved in mentoring in any setting - from the primary school to the adult education college - will find this book indispensable as a guide to reflection and a spur to action.
The aim of this text is to address the traditional skills which remain essential for classroom management. It helps readers to adapt these skills for modern schools and explores skills which need to be adopted for the future. Topics range from classroom discipline to dealing with difficult parents.
To become, and continue to be, an effective leader, there are critical key qualities that you need to develop and demonstrate on a regular basis. These qualities never expire and are universal, although they may be expressed in a myriad of ways depending on the circumstances, culture, and how you are wired as an individual. Drawing on the insights,epertise aand leadership experiance of eight contributing authours, representing five nations, this book provides practical information covering key enduaring leadership qualities essential for leading effectively today and future proofing your leadership within an ever-changing market place.
Learning Objectives, Task-setting and Differentiation clarifies what each of these three skills are and explains their purpose. It explores issues around, and consequences of, implementation of these skills. Practical application is discussed, supported by examples and activities. It encourages readers to assess their own implementation and progress by alaysing the tasks against standards. With practical tips for working teachers and teachers-in-training, this volume aims to equip them with the skills they need to formulate learning objectives, set tasks and differentiate work for students more effectively in their classrooms.
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