Improving Classroom Performance In Schools (Managing In Schools & CPD Book 4)

Departments in schools used to be administrative structures. The role of the head of department was to chair meetings, order and sometimes produce resources, and carry out various bureaucratic and representative tasks. They were not centres for developing approaches to teaching and learning.
In most schools, this has now changed, although there is still a tendency towards a fragmented and inconsistent approach. This eBook is designed to help your department move towards a more collective, coherent approach to the challenge of raising classroom performance.

There are four parts to the eBook. Each part focuses on a key area of raising classroom performance as a department. These are as follows:

• Developing a common teaching philosophy
• Collective approaches to schemes of work
• Peer observation
• Running effective meetings.

It is almost certain that your school has a programme of training to improve classroom performance and that a significant proportion of the professional development budget is devoted to it. This eBook is different in that it is purely concerned with what you and what a department can do as a whole to raise classroom performance.