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Issue 4.6

Leadership

Manager’s Briefcase – The SENCo/TA partnership

Resources for developing an effective working relationship between SENCos and TAs.

  • 12 Mar 2013
  • 24mins
Leadership

Resisting the red pen

Young children who’ve previously been victims of the dreaded ‘marking red pen’ are often reluctant to unleash their imagination in their creative writing for fear of making mistakes. Alison Wilcox describes how she expanded the focus of her teaching from eliminating errors to experimenting with language, and managed to inspire even the most unenthusiastic of writers.

  • 12 Mar 2013
  • 24mins
Leadership

The right to go

Wetting and soiling in school has a devastating effect on a young child’s self esteem, independence and development. Eileen Jacques highlights a few ways schools can collaborate with parents to support a child suffering from incontinence and help them reach their full potential.

  • 12 Mar 2013
  • 24mins
Leadership

Proposed changes to the Primary National Curriculum

We summarise the proposed changes to the national curriculum which Gove believes will restore vigour to our children’s education and raise our international ranking. [Open Access]

  • 12 Mar 2013
  • 24mins
Leadership

SEN children dumped on TAs

Pupils with special education needs are separated from their teachers and peers to their great educational disadvantage, new research has revealed. Maisie Gould reports.

  • 12 Mar 2013
  • 24mins
Leadership

Avoiding the pitfalls of performance related pay

Performance related pay is in force whether we like it or not, yet there are still many schools without a rigorous and transparent approach to performance appraisal. Keith Wright analyses the challenges these schools might face, and offers advice on making the change.

  • 12 Mar 2013
  • 24mins
Leadership

How to trust others to take the lead

In the second article in our series by leading educationalists on the current state of education and leadership in schools today, Christopher Day reports on how a major research project has increased our understanding of distributed leadership, its fundamental and reciprocal relationship with trust and its contribution to improving schools.

  • 12 Mar 2013
  • 24mins
Leadership

CPD for busy teachers

The world of technology has some brilliant ways teachers who struggle to find the time to attend seminars and workshops can continue their professional development without even leaving the classroom. Glenys Hart investigates.

  • 12 Mar 2013
  • 24mins
Leadership

How good are your teachers?

It can often be difficult to pinpoint the exact definition of a good teacher, let alone work out whether your own teaching standards match up to it. Heather Clements explains how schools can begin to evaluate and improve their teachers’ effectiveness, aided by her new toolkit – What is Good Teaching?

  • 12 Mar 2013
  • 24mins
Leadership

Time for an alternative curriculum

Gove’s facts-driven, subject-based curriculum has been branded ‘old school’, ‘old fashioned’ and ‘fatally flawed’… but is there an alternative? Michael Reiss and John White propose a curriculum not built around a rigid list of well worn subjects, but instead founded upon the two fundamental aims of education – to enable students to live a personally fulfilling life and help others to do the same.

  • 12 Mar 2013
  • 24mins