Leading the Curriculum in the Primary School

Neil Burton, Mark Brundrett

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN: 9781412902533, 9781412902526
• eBook ISBN: 9781446231135
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Leadership in Education

?The book is a good introduction to anyone taking on middle leadership in the primary sector, and will be useful to heads and deputies who are considering how to organise their schools in the face continuing change and increasing accountability? - Times Educational Supplement

In recent years, there has been an acknowledgement of the need for teachers to develop management and leadership skills in addition to specialized subject knowledge, to achieve a state where they possess transferable skills that can be employed in co-ordinating any area of the primary curriculum. This book will provide trainees, NQTs and experienced teachers with the management and leadership techniques that they will need in order to develop, with appropriate experience and opportunities, into subject leaders or effective members of a senior management team.

The emphasis in this book is on the practical techniques and strategies of curriculum leadership. At all levels of experience, from establishing a direction through working with resources to leading and motivating colleagues, this book deals with the theoretical, practical and technological issues facing teachers as they create and manage curricula. This book is an invaluable resource for trainees and teachers at every level as they confront the rapidly shifting demands of their profession.

Index

Added to a page number ‘f’ denotes a figure and ‘t’ denotes a table.

A

ABCD approach 63

accessibility, of resources 110–11

accountability

budgetary management 122

external 90–3

of subject leaders 85, 96–7

of teachers 85–6

action focus, in research 174

action planning

from target-setting to 66–70

for learning resources 109

role of middle leaders 62–5

action research 185–6

advanced leadership 50

advanced skills teacher (AST) 9, 12

advisory teachers 114

agents of change 7, 59

aggregated data, predicting pupil performance 25–6

Alex (case study) 143

All our Futures (NACCCE) 163

ambiguity model, financial decision-making 129–30

ambitious school targets 67

assessment, of learning 24–5

attitudes

in curriculum development 31

towards parents 86

attitudinal focus, in research 174

audits

learning resources 106–7

planning cycle 66

B

background music 22

basis of costs 124

behaviour management 22–4

behavioural/mechanistic curriculum 39t

Belbin’s model, team roles 137–8

benchmark information, pupil performance 69

benchmarked targets 67

blame, apportioning 141

booking systems, resources 110

bottom-up model, curriculum design 32

Brain Gym 22

budgeting 120–6

calculating cost 124–5

formulaic 123–4

incremental 122–3

priority-based 123

purpose of 121–2

zero based 123

Burton/Middlewood model, curriculum design 33

C

case studies, in research 182

central control model, accountability 90

chain of responsibility model, accountability 91

change 58–60

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Dedication
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Section A An Overview of the Components
• Section B Establishing a Direction
• Section C Working with Resources
• Section D Leading and Motivating Colleagues and Pupils
• Index