500 Tips For School Improvement

Schools now have to prove that they are effective learning organizations. To achieve this, management competences must evolve at the same time as staff development and training. This text provides useful tips covering all aspects of school management and individual effectiveness.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This manual provides practical advice and tips on dealing with aspects of the primary teacher's role, from classroom organization to professional development.

Following changes in education over the years, lecturers are under increased pressure with heavier workloads and more complex assessment duties. This practical manual seeks to provide ideas on all aspects from coping with heavier workloads to working with support staff, and has a "dip-into" format.

500 Tips for Developing a Learning Organization offers advice for managers wanting to develop their organization into one that is focused on individual learning as a route to organizational success. It offers tips for all types of organization and a summary of how to create a learning organization.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Martin Thrupp argues that there has to be a much bigger educational and social justice agenda to school improvement than the managerial approaches typically taken by government policy. He critiques those school improvement texts, courses and consultancies which mostly frame their analyses within the terms of current policy and therefore act to apologise for it. An alternative, more critical approach to school improvement is developed in the book and the author also provides examples of practical strategies to be employed within this approach. >

Including sections on creative thinking, problems in groups, feedback mechanisms, dealing with conflict, and gender issues within groups, this volume is designed to aid educators and trainers to create more effective group learning situations.

There has been a growth in the number of teachers involved in teaching English as a foreign or second language. This handbook contains practical suggestions for EFL teachers, and aims to lead to ideas which can be tried out at once. Lists of useful resources and pro-formas are included.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.