Key Issues for Primary Schools

Michael Farrell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• ISBN:
  9781134672875
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Key Issues for Primary Schools is a concise comprehensive guide to the main issues in primary education and the implications for schools. Presented in a convenient A-Z format, the book includes coverage of:
* special educational needs
* attendance, truancy and exclusion
* bullying and behavioural problems
* management and administration
* safety and security.
There is also a review of up-to-date DfEE requirements and suggestions for further action and reading. The addresses of useful contacts help to make it a reference book no primary school should be without.

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Admissions Towards Greater Transparency and Equity
• Appraisal An Integrated System
• Assessment Complexities
• Attendance Improving Pupil Attendance
• Baseline Assessment Strengths and Limitations
• Behaviour and its Improvement
• Benchmarking A Machete Not a Scalpel
• Bullying Not in Our School
• Child Protection Awareness and Procedures
• Classroom Management Developing Interrelated Skills
• Curriculum Changes
• Differentiation The Importance of Planning
• Direct Teaching Some Strengths and Weaknesses
• Early Years Nursery Developments and Reception Classes
• Efficiency of the School and How it may be Improved
• Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
• English as an Additional Language (EAL) Guidelines and Confusions
• Equal Opportunities Beyond the Platitudes
• Governing Bodies Clarity about their Role
• Group Work Learning Together
• Head Teachers Leadership and Management
• Health and Safety A Manageable Framework
• Homework The Importance of Whole-School Planning
• Inclusion Ideology or Pragmatism?
• Information and Communications Technology Exciting Developments
• Initial Teacher Training Routes and Structures
• Inspection Getting the Most from it
• Learning Resources and their Full Use
• Literacy A National Strategy
• Marketing the Primary School
• Media Management for the School
• Numeracy
• Organisation of Pupils in School (Including Class Size)
• Parents and the Community Improving Partnership
• Planning for Teaching and Learning
• Project Management in Primary Education
• Research Action Research in the School
• School Improvement Plans Within Strategic Planning
• Security of the School
• Sex Education Steering a Steady Course
• Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development Complex Interrelationships
• Staff Development Including Newly Qualified Teachers
• Standards The New Watchword
• Support for Children Maximising Outside Help
• Target Setting
• Teaching Assistants and Associates
• Topic Work as an Approach to the Curriculum
• Value Added Measures and their Relation to League Tables
• Very Able Pupils
• reference