- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Teachers, school managers and governors are now more publicly accountable than ever. They are expected to know how their school is performing and how to improve that performance. Target setting is a key tool in the drive to raise standards, and has been implemented at every level of the education system.
This book explores target setting from both the teacher's and pupil's viewpoint, and investigates the role of assessment in successful teaching and learning. It shows that it is possible to develop a whole-school target setting policy co-ordinating the use of targets for individual pupils, subject specific departments and teams, and whole-school improvement plans. In this way, targets can be used positively for the benefit of pupils, teachers and managers.
This book will be important reading for headteachers, senior management teams, assessment co-ordinators and subject leaders in schools, and will also be of interest to governors and LEA advisors.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Teaching and Targets
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A note about audience and context especially for colleagues in further and higher education
- Introduction
- 1 Schoolsâ initial experience of using performance targets for pupilsâ attainment
- 2 What pupils think of targets
- 3 Ethos, teaching and targets
- 4 Formative assessment and targets
- 5 Whole-school targets and improvement
- 6 Using targets in special schools
- 7 Targets for inclusion and other aspects of education
- 8 Subject teams and targets
- 9 Performance management and objectives
- 10 Governance, school improvement and targets
- 11 Monitoring and evaluation
- Appendix 1 Pupilsâ responses to my questions about their activities, learning and targets
- Appendix 2 Marking policy
- Appendix 3 Consistency in assessment
- Appendix 4 Statistical techniques
- Appendix 5 Case study of developing targets in a primary school
- Appendix 6 Case study of developing targets in a secondary school
- Appendix 7 Annual cycle of school self-review and target-setting
- Appendix 8 Assessment policy guidance for schools: show how you put assessment and target policy into practice
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index