Michael Harpham Livres

This practical handbook offers a month-by-month guide to the curriculum, assessment, progress and leadership over the school year. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and coherent structure to the academic year helping school leaders to prioritise their time and workload, supporting them and their team to work as efficiently and effectively as possible. Considering the statutory and key leadership activities from admissions, induction, transitions and parents' evenings to coursework, timetabling, assessment, staff performance and much more, the book provides a clear plan of action to ensure school leaders have prepared their work at the optimal time over the year. Each chapter features tried and tested strategies to help schools put robust systems and processes in place alongside guidance on sustaining pace, developing resilience and exam preparation and technique. Full of practical tips to help improve progress and including real world examples of leadership in action from leaders working in primary and secondary schools, this is essential reading for all school leaders that want their their students to be as successful as they can possibly be in every lesson, every day.

The handbook provides a structured month-by-month guide for school leaders, focusing on curriculum, assessment, and progress throughout the academic year. It emphasizes effective leadership and time management, helping educators prioritize their responsibilities and streamline their workload for improved school performance.

What is progress in learning? How do we see progress being made in a lesson? This book offers a fresh perspective on teaching, learning and progress in the classroom. Written by an experienced teacher and school leader, Michael Harpham, it explores the different ways in which progress can be made in the classroom and how it can be more effectively delivered, identified, evidenced, measured and assessed. The book provides an overview of progress in schools for both teachers and school leaders, including what is meant by progress and what it looks like in lessons, as well as its implications on assessment, leadership, and internal and external school evaluation. It offers over thirty situation-driven strategies and activities to help develop and deliver progress in and beyond the classroom, focussing on five measures: Skills Knowledge Accuracy Resilience Independent learning Full of tips to help improve progress in schools, this is essential reading for all teachers, school leaders and parents.

This book offers a fresh perspective on how teachers and school leaders can implement effective teamwork in schools. Drawing on his ground-breaking research, Dr Michael Harpham identifies 5 key ingredients that support effective teamwork in schools and offers over 40 situation-driven strategies to help you lead and develop your team.