Heading Towards Excellence: A Toolkit for School Management - Softcover

Rowling, John R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1858562570 ISBN 13: 9781858562575

Publisher: Trentham Books Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This book identifies the ways to make good practice in school management exceptionally good. The headteacher of a secondary school in northern England has set out the processes by which he and his management team, pastoral and departmental heads, teachers and others members of the staff, and the students and governors, worked to evaluate and improve their practice. Working initially from the documented good practice in management, they moved towards developing their own model of evaluation. In Part 1 of this book, John Rowling describes the theoretical background to the model, the conditions required for it to function to full effect, and the framework by which achievement - of every member of the school, beginning with the headteacher - can be measured. Part 2 consists of photocopiable checklists of the key charcteristics of good practice for making the work of each group of people in the school - again starting from the headteacher - in terms of good, very good and outstanding practice. These are not only clear and accessible measures, they also indicate for readers the incremental factors that lead towards excellence. The book is for all headteachers and aspiring heads, and for the staff and governors of all schools which are doing a good job and want to still do better.

About this title

About the Author

John R Rowling is the head of Nunthorpe School in Middlesbrough, and has been a teacher fo 17 years. The book is the product of a process on which he now provides training, and has been strongly endorsed by, among others, John dunford, Secretary of the School Heads Association, Helen de Quesnay, Patrick Scott and Professor Tim Brighouse.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trentham Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858562570
• ISBN 13: 9781858562575
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92