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A guide to school management for deputy heads. It covers various aspects of this demanding role, from managing staff and running meetings, to delegation, dealing with the press and moving onto a new role. Packed with real-life examples, it is useful reading for deputy heads.
This is the definitive guide to being a successful Head of Year. Brian Carline covers every aspect of this challenging role, from leading a team of tutors and heading up a year group, to coping with problem parents, dealing with the SEN department and working effectively with the rest of the school. This book also contains an invaluable 'teaching clinic' in the final section, providing solutions to some of the most common problems a Head of Year is likely to encounter. Accessibly and engagingly written, and packed with real-life examples, this book will prove essential reading for Heads of Year everywhere.
This book's structure reflects the different dimensions to learning science. The first section focuses on the importance of talk in the science classroom, while the second explores the key role of practical work. The third section is concerned with the creative, theoretical aspect of science. Section four follows this by considering the communication of ideas and how pupils learn to participate in the discourse of the scientific community. Section five emphasizes the place of science in the broader context, considering its moral and ethical dimensions and its place in a cultural context. Finally, section six explores the complexity of the task faced by science teachers, highlighting the knowledge and skills science teachers must acquire in order to create an environment in which students are motivated to learn science.
Describes the different types of truancy, the reasons why truancy starts, and what happens to truants, and includes advice for teachers on how to make students want to attend school.
In 2002, just when the kids had finally left home and life was getting a bit easier, Jackie's husband came back from a conference and told her that he wanted to learn to ride a motorbike before he got too old. Jackie was first shocked and then horrified. Having witnessed a tragic bike accident in her early 20's she was very against the idea and tried to talk him out of it. Then slowly she got drawn into the fascinating world of biking and bikers until, overcoming her own fears, she took to the road on two wheels. Full of wry observations about bikers, both on and off bikes, amusing anecdotes and a self mocking account of Jackie's efforts to learn to handle her machine on her ever widening travels, this book shows us that motorbiking is not just about power, speed and big macho men in leathers.
This is the definitive guide to successful school management and leadership for headteachers and deputy heads, written by two practitioners with extensive knowledge of running schools. Focusing on the importance of management structures, the authors concentrate on strategic planning in finance, the curriculum, personnel, and the governors. Writing in an accessible and entertaining style, this comprehensive resource also provides invaluable advice on how headteachers can manage disparate groups in a coherent way, as well as offering strategies for managing staff performance.
This book is a history of the some of the world's most famous brands, from humble beginnings to current exalted status, from smudged, kitchen-table pamphlets to $ multi-million ad campaigns, from backyard experiments to global research. It examines the most recent developments in these glittering trajectories and reveals the very DNA of the brands themselves. Is it mastery of absorbency, the virtuoso integration of acquisitions, developing incomparable consumer trust, the ability to think in decades? All is revealed. If you work in Retail, FMCG, Marketing or Consumer Goods, this is a must–read book. Keywords: FMCG , History, Manufactures, Brands, Innovation, Global, Consumer, Retail, Market, Emerging Markets, Coke, Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, Dean Foods, Estée Lauder, General Mills, Heinz, Henkel, Kellog, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft, L'Oréal, Mars, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever
Mastering Deputy Headship is essential reading for all aspiring and newly-appointed deputy heads. The second edition has been comprehensively revised, to provide you with a practical guide to the leadership and management skills required in this demanding role. The new edition of this bestseller includes three new chapters, and offers vital guidance on: the first few weeks in post the management of change performance management up-to-date coverage of the NPQH coping with learning, teaching and curriculum responsibilities managing a budget and handling your school finances time management skills
Teaching and Managing in Schools is essential reading for any teacher new to a leadership role, or thinking about a career move to middle management. Brought up-to-date to reflect the new model for school leadership arising from the National Agreement of Workforce, the book is supported by a variety of case studies, practical advice and activities.
Can love survive the scrutiny of society? Rosalind's marriage to the charming Lord Evan Westwood was a love match, but it has not been what she expected. Going from being a poor relation to a lady should have been a dream come true, however, Rosalind struggles with the changes that have come to her life. Will her husband regret marrying her when he realizes that society doesn't accept her? Ten years may have passed since the scandal with her father, but certain members of the ton have not forgotten what John Emerson did. Rosalind tries to hold her head up high and prove her reputation is above reproach. This becomes difficult when one of Lord Evan's schoolmates, Mr. John Rowley, tries to flirt with her every time they meet. Escaping to the countryside for a house party sounds like a good idea, but rumors and speculation follow them there. Rosalind finds her father's journal, but unraveling the threads of the past is difficult when the present is just as tangled. Can Rosalind and Evan agree on how to dispel the rumors or will their lives be overshadowed by scandal forever?