Key Issues For Secondary Schools
Michael Farrell presents an examination of the main issues affecting secondary schools and the implications for secondary education. The resource includes information on accreditation of pupils, careers education and guidance, discipline, leadership and management and transition from primary to secondary school.\ By using the A-Z format, he tackles the issues in an easy to follow way. Each section ends with a series of points for action, selective suggestions for further reading and addresses...
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'... [gives] the readers a rapid, yet incisive grasp of those major topics that form the agenda of secondary education in the early years of the 21st century.'- Professor Trevor Kerry, Vice President of the College of Teachers
ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroductionAccreditation of pupil achievement: balancing relevance and cohesiveness1Assessment and its uses6Attendance: how it can be improved10Benchmarking: comparing like with like?15Careers education and guidance and work preparation19Child protection: systems and understanding24Curriculum developments: balancing cohesiveness and flexibility29Discipline: improving and maintaining it34Failing schools: lessons to be learned39Information and communications technology: keeping ahead44Leadership and management: its impact in the classroom49Media relationships55Moral values, school ethos and pupil attitudes59National and local responsibilities: a new balance64Partnerships: governors, parents and the community72Personal, social and health education: a communal approach78Professional development: towards a systematic approach83Pupil differences: gender and ethnicity89Quality approaches and project management94Resources and their best use99School improvement plans: optimising their effect104Special educational needs: some recent trends110Standards and effectiveness116Target setting: behind the jargon121Thinking skills and research skills126Transition from primary to secondary school: securing successful transfer131Value added: support or illumination?135Very able pupils: improving their attainment and contribution to the school139Glossary (selective)144Bibliography147
