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Meeting the challenges of primary schooling / edited by Lloyd Logan and Judyth Sachs.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Educational management series.
- Educational management series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Elementary--Australia.
- Education, Elementary.
- Education, Elementary--Australia--Administration.
- Education, Elementary--Australia--Curricula.
- Elementary school teaching--Australia.
- Elementary school teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Teachers in primary schools deal with a wide range of issues every day. This book helps teachers to understand those issues, and how they fit in with recent government policies and initiatives. Each chapter looks at: * relevant statements of policy or initiative * how these statements fit into the context of specific schools * the challenges they present for those involved in schools * how schools can respond to these challenges * learning across contexts Each chapter has been written by one practitioner and one academic and between them the chapters cover the whole
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; 1 Challenges facing primary school administrators and teachers; 2 Leading and managing restructuring at the school site; 3 Strategic planning in schools; 4 Managing school development: a case study; 5 School review for improved student learning; 6 The middle years of schooling; 7 National initiatives and primary schooling; 8 Extending options for gifted and talented pupils; 9 Responding to the pupils' culture and language; 10 The gender-responsive classroom; 11 What is being learned here?
- 12 Introducing lap-top computers in the junior school13 Discipline in the classroom; 14 Learning partnerships; 15 Alternative ways of grouping pupils for learning; 16 Building professional community and supporting teachers as learners; 17 Musing on the future of primary schooling; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-75694-1
- 1-134-75695-X
- 1-280-15011-4
- 0-203-99026-9
- 9780203990261
- OCLC:
- 264457633
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