Primary and middle schools

A key role for primary school leaders is to develop strategies for promoting and ensuring high quality learning.

Describes an ESCR-funded research project into the ways in which five primary schools planned and developed curriculum policies.

Describes an ESCR-funded research project into the ways in which five primary schools planned and developed curriculum policies.

The final volume of four, the authors, all specialists in the areas of the curriculum, consider how the concerns of ethnic groups may be addressed within the framework of the National Curriculum.

The final volume of four, the authors, all specialists in the areas of the curriculum, consider how the concerns of ethnic groups may be addressed within the framework of the National Curriculum.

Focusing on change and reform in secondary and elementary schools, this book explores the possibilities for better schooling for early adolescents.

Focusing on change and reform in secondary and elementary schools, this book explores the possibilities for better schooling for early adolescents.

Highlights and examines factors in primary education curriculum development, teacher training and professionalism and educational change.

Highlights and examines factors in primary education curriculum development, teacher training and professionalism and educational change.

Argues the need for schools to examine the school environment and its effects on children's and staff's well-being.

Argues the need for schools to examine the school environment and its effects on children's and staff's well-being.

First Published in 2004.

First Published in 2004.

Since the 1992 Education Act inaugurated national arrangements for inspection, schools have operated within an 'inspection climate' which pervades every aspect of school life on a continual basis.

Since the 1992 Education Act inaugurated national arrangements for inspection, schools have operated within an 'inspection climate' which pervades every aspect of school life on a continual basis.

This edited volume presents an inter- and multidisciplinary approach towards language teacher education, confronting the issues that have continued to pervade the field for the last two decades.

Assessment has become one of the key issues in primary education over the past 10 years.

Assessment has become one of the key issues in primary education over the past 10 years.

Primary education is currently at the centre of political attention.

Primary education is currently at the centre of political attention.

Drawn from the experience of the Essex Primary School Improvement programme, this book shows how primary schools in the county have improved their standards subsequent to OFSTED inspection.

Drawn from the experience of the Essex Primary School Improvement programme, this book shows how primary schools in the county have improved their standards subsequent to OFSTED inspection.

Over the past decade, the question of whether there is a mental logic has become subject to considerable debate.

Over the past decade, the question of whether there is a mental logic has become subject to considerable debate.

This book consists of the reports of 13 urban elementary teacher researchers' year-long inquiries around literacy topics--conducted as part of a collaborative school-university action research project.

This book consists of the reports of 13 urban elementary teacher researchers' year-long inquiries around literacy topics--conducted as part of a collaborative school-university action research project.

Developed in response to the growing interest in examining individual schools as they undergo change, this book features eight case studies of urban elementary and high schools as they face problems and attempt to find solutions in their quest to reform themselves.

Developed in response to the growing interest in examining individual schools as they undergo change, this book features eight case studies of urban elementary and high schools as they face problems and attempt to find solutions in their quest to reform themselves.

This book is based on a careful theorizing of classroom power relations that sees them as constructed from the actions of all participants.

This book is based on a careful theorizing of classroom power relations that sees them as constructed from the actions of all participants.

Inclusive Education includes two sections: readings and cases.

Inclusive Education includes two sections: readings and cases.

This new edition of Teaching Secondary English is thoroughly revised, but its purpose has not changed.

This new edition of Teaching Secondary English is thoroughly revised, but its purpose has not changed.

Teachers have the responsibility of helping all of their students construct the disposition and knowledge needed to live successfully in a complex and rapidly changing world.

Teachers have the responsibility of helping all of their students construct the disposition and knowledge needed to live successfully in a complex and rapidly changing world.

This volume offers a unique glimpse into the teaching approaches and thinking of a wide range of well-known literacy researchers, and the lessons they have learned from their own teaching lives.

This volume offers a unique glimpse into the teaching approaches and thinking of a wide range of well-known literacy researchers, and the lessons they have learned from their own teaching lives.

This volume focuses on two related questions that are central to both the psychology of mathematical thinking and learning and to the improvement of mathematics education: What is the nature of arithmetic expertise?

This volume focuses on two related questions that are central to both the psychology of mathematical thinking and learning and to the improvement of mathematics education: What is the nature of arithmetic expertise?

Constructions of Literacy explores and represents, through a series of cases and commentaries, how and why secondary school teachers and students use literacy in formal and informal learning settings.

Constructions of Literacy explores and represents, through a series of cases and commentaries, how and why secondary school teachers and students use literacy in formal and informal learning settings.

Mathematics Classrooms That Promote Understanding synthesizes the implications of research done by the National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences on integrating two somewhat diverse bodies of scholarly inquiry: the study of teaching and the study of learning mathematics.

Mathematics Classrooms That Promote Understanding synthesizes the implications of research done by the National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences on integrating two somewhat diverse bodies of scholarly inquiry: the study of teaching and the study of learning mathematics.

This text is designed specifically to meet the needs of preservice teachers who have had little experience working in middle-grade classrooms.

This text is designed specifically to meet the needs of preservice teachers who have had little experience working in middle-grade classrooms.

This lucid, accessible, thought-provoking discussion of issues related to equity in science education reform is for science educators, including idealists and exacting pragmatists, who are dedicated to exploring what it means to put into practice rallying cries like "e;science literacy for all,"e; "e;equity and excellence,"e; and "e;standards-based reform.

This lucid, accessible, thought-provoking discussion of issues related to equity in science education reform is for science educators, including idealists and exacting pragmatists, who are dedicated to exploring what it means to put into practice rallying cries like "e;science literacy for all,"e; "e;equity and excellence,"e; and "e;standards-based reform.

This text for secondary preservice and in-service English language arts teachers offers a rationale for meaning-centered English language arts teaching and practical strategies for application.

This text for secondary preservice and in-service English language arts teachers offers a rationale for meaning-centered English language arts teaching and practical strategies for application.