Improved Learning - Professional Practice in Secondary Schools

Derek Glover

ISBN 10: 0335209122 / ISBN 13: 9780335209125

Published by Open Univ Pr, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Improved Learning - Professional Practice in Secondary Schools
• Publisher: Open Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335209122
• ISBN 13: 9780335209125
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

This book has developed from research into initiatives for school improvement in a range of secondary schools. The authors consider the views of students as a starting point. They then chart action being undertaken to enhance the environment of classroom and school in order to develop challenge in teaching and learning, to consider learning styles and the use of teaching strategies to meet these, to analyze the nature of successful staff-student relationships, to help students to see the rationale for and importance of integration in the curriculum, and to chronicle endeavors 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.

About the Author

Derek Glover is a Visiting Professor of Education at Nottingham Trent University. After 18 years' experience as the head of a large community school, he completed his PhD with the Open University and began his 'second career' - teaching, researching and publishing in the fields of school organization, financial management and the management of school reputation.

Sue Law is Professor of Education and Head of the Department of Secondary and Tertiary Education at Nottingham Trent University. After teaching for 20 years, she became Director of Continuing Professional Development at Keele University, where she established innovative distance-learning MBA and MA educational management programs. She now balances leadership of a large University department with researching and publishing on teachers' professional development, education management and educational policymaking.