School development
6 total works
An Introduction to Teacher Appraisal
by Rob Bollington, etc., David Hopkins, and Mel West
Published 31 October 1985
Appraisal is increasingly becoming a feature of teachers' professional lives. The purpose of this book is to assist all those involved in appraisal in developing and running the process. The authors provide advice based on a review of the appraisal literature, on their findings as members of the team evaluating the School Teacher Appraisal Pilot Study of 1987/9 and on their work with teachers in developing schemes for appraisal. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an aspect of the appraisal process, and contains a survey of experience from the literature and the pilot study, from which key principles of guidance and advice are derived.
School Improvement in an Era of Change
by David Hopkins, Mel Ainscow, and Mel West
Published 1 March 1994
This text presents a new approach to school improvement, written in the context of increased government control over education policy. Based on the experience of the Improving the Quality of Education for All (IQEA) project, which involves 26 schools, it discusses the kind of school infrastructure which can best cope with, and implement, effective change.
Quality Schooling
by David Aspin, etc., Judith Chapman, and Vern Wilkinson
Published 1 November 1994
What constitutes quality schooling and what are its implications for educational practice and school administration? This book looks at these questions and examines international reform initiatives in the 1980s - with particular emphasis on the USA, the UK and Australia. The authors argue that these examples illustrate the dilemmas of both centralized, managerial educational control and school-based and decentralized educational governance. They claim that the challenge now facing educational leaders is to find a balance.
Presents the latest knowledge in the field of school improvement and school development.
School, Community and Lifelong Learning
by Judith D. Chapman and David Aspin
Published 1 January 1998
A volume which argues that, in order to give children the positive, successful and enthusiastic start in life that is necessary as a basis for the ideal of "lifelong learning", schools must be prepared to engage the community actively, while undertaking radical self-appraisal and renewal.
The Reconstruction of Education
by Judith D. Chapman, etc., William Boyd, Rolf Lander, and Dave Reynolds
Published 11 July 1996
The book evaluates the impact of changes in educational policy upon the processes and outcomes of education using a sample of nations as case studies. It describes policy changes, analyses their causes and discusses their effects, and will inform educational policies for the late 1990s.