How to Run Your School Successfully
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published in November 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8264-9488-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is the definitive guide to successful school management and leadership for head teachers 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 head teachers can manage disparate groups in a coherent way, as well as offering strategies for managing staff performance.
More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
School Management
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-9488-7 (9780826494887)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Adrian Percival is head teacher of the Matthew Arnold School in Oxford, UK. Susan Tranter is deputy head of the Matthew Arnold School in Oxford, UK.
Content
1. The best job there is; 2. Getting started; 3. Where the buck stops; 4. What do we do with all this money?; 5. But isn't teaching and learning the most important thing?; 6. We can't leave it up to them; 7. Getting the herd moving roughly west; 8. Hitting the target; 9. Raising standards and reducing workload; 10. What's so special about this school?; 11. Epilogue.