Key Issues for Secondary Schools

Michael Farrell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781134572076
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Michael Farrell presents an examination of the main issues affecting secondary schools and the implications for secondary education. The resource includes information on accreditation of pupils, careers education and guidance, discipline, leadership and management and transition from primary to secondary school. By using the A-Z format, he tackles the issues in an easy to follow way. Each section ends with a series of points for action, selective suggestions for further reading and addresses of useful contacts. Michael Farrell's book is intended for a wide range of people professionally concerned with education, from Headteachers and governors to BEd and PGCE students. It is a reference book that no secondary school should be without.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Accreditation of pupil achievement: Balancing relevance and cohesiveness
• Assessment and its uses
• Attendance: How it can be improved
• Benchmarking: Comparing like with like?
• Careers education and guidance and work preparation
• Child protection: Systems and understanding
• Curriculum developments: Balancing cohesiveness and flexibility
• Discipline: Improving and maintaining it
• Failing schools: Lessons to be learned
• Information and communications technology: Keeping ahead
• Leadership and management: Its impact in the classroom
• Media relationships
• Moral values, school ethos and pupil attitudes
• National and local responsibilities: A new balance
• Partnerships: Governors, parents and the community
• Personal, social and health education: A communal approach
• Professional development: Towards a systematic approach
• Pupil differences: Gender and ethnicity
• Quality approaches and project management
• Resources and their best use
• School improvement plans: Optimising their effect
• Special educational needs: Some recent trends
• Standards and effectiveness
• Target setting: Behind the jargon
• Thinking skills and research skills
• Transition from primary to secondary school: Securing successful transfer
• Value added: Support or illumination?
• Very able pupils: Improving their attainment and contribution to the school
• Glossary (selective)
• Bibliography