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A manifesto for excellence in schools / Rob Carpenter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carpenter, Rob, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Standards.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Bloomsbury Education, 2018.
- Summary:
- This book explores the challenges and opportunities in improving education systems, with a focus on school leadership and classroom environments. Drawing from the author's personal experiences as a headteacher, it emphasizes the importance of relationships, school climate, and collaboration in fostering positive change in schools. Key themes include effective leadership, mastery learning, expansive assessment approaches, and the role of culture in shaping educational outcomes. The author critiques overly prescriptive frameworks and advocates for simplicity in education, prioritizing the needs of children above all else. Intended for educators, policymakers, and school leaders, the book provides actionable insights and a model for sustainable school improvement. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Lessons from headteacher interviews
- A new challenge
- The purpose of this book
- A few words about collaboration
- 1 Let's start with why
- A crisis in teaching
- The problem of accountability
- The Ofsted model for accountability
- Assessment as accountability
- Another way
- Leadership and accountability
- 2 When Ofsted came to call
- Desperate times...
- ...desperate measures
- Things continued to get worse
- Identity crisis
- The verdict
- What came before?
- What did the future hold?
- 3 Making plans
- The first 90 days: rapid impact plans
- Our context
- 4 The learning environment
- The importance of a high-quality learning environment
- What we did
- Deepening collaboration
- Environment drives behaviour
- Transforming the Woodhill environment
- Defining expectations
- 5 Climate and culture
- Climate rules
- The impact of climate on children
- Lessons worth behaving for
- 6 The domains of learning
- The cognitive learning domain (CLD)
- The affective learning domain (ALD)
- The psychomotor learning domain (PLD)
- An alternative approach
- An expansive curriculum
- 7 Mastery for learning
- Mastery in schools
- The importance of planning
- The talent myth
- Mastery learning and the social learner
- Tommy's story
- Learning to love what you do
- Measuring and capturing mastery
- 8 Expansive assessment
- Problems with top-down accountability
- International picture
- What's gone wrong?
- An alternative
- What should be done
- Evidence of progress
- 9 Leadership and professional development
- Leadership styles
- Outstanding
- What really happened
- Professional development
- 10 Conclusion
- A school improvement model for the future
- A school improvement model that works
- References.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-4729-4632-4
- OCLC:
- 1054028830
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