How to Improve Your School

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Dedication......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
FIGURES AND TABLES......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
INTERLUDE......Page 11
1 EFFECTIVE AND IMPROVING SCHOOLS......Page 14
School effectiveness: the nouns and adjectives of successful schooling......Page 16
School improvement: the verbs of successful schooling......Page 17
The practice of management......Page 18
I take my stand on detail......Page 19
Keep it simple......Page 20
The practice of collective review......Page 21
Don’t attempt to do it all at once......Page 22
The visual environment......Page 23
The aural environment......Page 25
The behavioural environment......Page 27
Teachers get exhausted where the rest of us merely tire......Page 29
Responsibility......Page 30
TEAMS......Page 31
It is important that teachers are encouraged to take risks.......Page 32
Respect and recognition......Page 33
The encouragement of parental and community involvement......Page 35
INTERLUDE......Page 39
The first rule of leadership is that it is shared......Page 41
Teachers as leaders......Page 43
Potential leadership: expanding the supply of energy......Page 44
Values: the importance of leaders’ behaviour......Page 46
Be cheerful and optimistic......Page 48
Genuine enthusiasm is infectious but more than simply a gift.......Page 49
Delegation......Page 50
Time management......Page 51
The management of change......Page 52
The need for a fixer......Page 54
The consolidation phase......Page 55
The essential characteristics of leadership......Page 57
The first phase of headship: initiation......Page 58
The doubtful benefits of previous experience......Page 60
The second stage of headship: the development stage......Page 61
That won’t be my job—I’ll leave the issue to my successor to decide.......Page 64
The perœptive professional developer: the problem solver and the motivational leader......Page 65
The back-room leader......Page 66
Time......Page 67
INTERLUDE......Page 68
3 TEACHING AND LEARNING......Page 70
An agreed policy about the practice of teaching and learning......Page 72
A teaching and learning staffroom......Page 73
Collaborative teaching, planning and assessment......Page 74
Twenty-first-century adults being taught by twentieth-century teachers in nineteenth-century classrooms......Page 76
Monitoring and evaluation/collective review......Page 77
Professional development......Page 79
Action research......Page 81
Community involvement in the learning school......Page 82
Curriculum enrichment and extension......Page 83
The celebration of teaching and learning......Page 84
INTERLUDE......Page 87
Butterflies......Page 89
The school butterfly effect......Page 90
Extending achievement: levering up curriculum provision through benchmarking, using standards maps......Page 96
A standard for equality of opportunity in schools......Page 98
Turning up the power: providing one-to-one learning opportunities when a child needs them......Page 101
Critical steps......Page 102
Everyone can make a difference to the craft knowledge of the school......Page 103
Raising the standard: setting targets to improve pupils’ performance......Page 104
Promoting a positive ethos: building self-esteem......Page 107
Ten chapters of school improvement......Page 109
INTERLUDE......Page 112
5 STAKEHOLDERS AND PARTNERS......Page 114
The need for a ‘critical friend’......Page 116
Governors......Page 119
Workshops with parents......Page 121
Governors’ induction and training......Page 122
INTERLUDE......Page 123
Appendix 1 SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT......Page 126
Appendix 2 THE EARLY YEARS GUARANTEE (OUTLINE)......Page 127
Appendix 3 THE PRIMARY GUARANTEE (OUTLINE)......Page 129
Appendix 4 THE SECONDARY GUARANTEE (OUTLINE)......Page 130
SELECTED READING......Page 132
INDEX......Page 133