Creating An Accelerated Learning School - Softcover

Lovatt, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855390744 ISBN 13: 9781855390744

Publisher: Network Continuum Education, 2001

Synopsis

This book describes how an ordinary high school set about incorporating accelerated learning into its teaching practices and policies. Headteacher Derek Wise provides a macro view of the process, discussing the changes made across the whole school. Head of Science, Mark Lovatt, provides a micro view, looking at ways to use accelerated learning in the classroom. Their experiences provide useful reading for any school wishing to improve the learning quality of its students. Several case studies are included to show how accelerated learning techniques can be applied to different subjects.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Lovatt is Head of Science and Learning Co-ordinator at Cramlington Community High School in Northumberland, England. He has spent considerable time and energy researching, adapting and applying the ideas of accelerated learning to his subject. Mark's energy and enthusiasm is evident from the plaudits his training events receive.

From the Back Cover

Cramlington Community High School has been officially described as an exciting place to learn . The story of its pioneering work with accelerated learning is told in Creating An Accelerated Learning School.

If you have been intrigued by the possibilities of accelerated learning but have not been sure how to start to implement it; if you have yet to be persuaded that accelerated learning can be robust enough to transform learning in your school; if you want to know what objective evidence there is for the success of the approach, then this book is for you.

In Creating An Accelerated Learning School you will read how one school took the ideas of accelerated learning and made them successful. The co-authors describe in detail the origins of their approach, from the earliest ideas, and take us through what they did to final success. The UK Schools Inspectorate described the approach as bold and innovative .

Creating An Accelerated Learning School is packed with strategies for whole school, departmental and classroom level improvement. It is thoroughly researched and practically proven. It provides hundreds of ideas and resources. This is the book that moves beyond theory by giving real examples of how a school has supported and embedded accelerated learning through:

successfully using the learning cycle as a planning tool
providing planning time within the school week for teachers to plan and review together
using ICT to underpin the initiative
supporting staff in the classroom with learning coaches
establishing a Learning to Learn course for all new students to give them the tools and skills they will need to fully engage in the learning process
producing its own training materials: handbook, planners, bulletins
careful and through recruitment and induction of new staff
aligning planning, monitoring and performance management to focus on the learning process.

Edition details

• Publisher: Network Continuum Education
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855390744
• ISBN 13: 9781855390744
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176