Transforming Teaching and Learning
Developing Critical Skills for Living and Working in the 21st Century
Network Continuum Education (Publisher)
Published in March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-1-85539-361-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book explains what the Critical Skills Programme is: it explains the underpinning theory and links this to detailed descriptions of the model in action within a wide variety of educational institutions. Designed as a dip-in reference book, cross referenced with helpful margin notes throughout, this is a really accessible and user-friendly book.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85539-361-5 (9781855393615)
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Persons
Colin Weatherley is a former secondary headteacher in West Lothian amd Edinburgh. In 1998 he discovered CSP in an American INSET video series. Network Educational Press were so impressed with the videos and other CSP materials that they negotiated the exclusive rights to promote CSP in the UK and asked Colin to take on the role of UK Critical Skills Manager. Bruce Bonney is a former middle school teacher in New York State. He trained in CSP in 1990, and after several years of teaching with the model joined the Critical Skills Programme headquarters staff. He is now President of Leading EDGE LLC, which organises all CSP training in New York State. Since early 2000 he has also worked closely with Network Educational Press to develop UK CSP training. John Kerr is head of the history department at Balerno Community High School, Edinburgh, and a senior examiner with the Scottish Qualifications Authority. He was one of the first UK teachers to undertake CSP training in February 2000 and has recently become an accredited CSP trainer. Jo Morrison was the first UK teacher to become an accredited CSP trainer. She works with 15 to 16 year-old underachieving and disaffected students at Tresham Institute, Kettering. CSP has given a solid framework to her work and has revitalised Jo not only but also her students. Tim Brighouse is Commissioner for London Schools and visiting professor at the Institute of Education at London University. He is a sought after speaker, author and has broadcast on UK radio and television.
Content
Section 1: Introduction; 1. A Brief History of CSP in the UK; 2. A summary of the Book; 3. Covering the Route: A Parable for our Times; Section 2: The Critical Skills Programme; Section 3: The Critical Skills Programme in Action. 1. The Gilboa-Conesville Experience; 2. A Primary Class Teacher's Experience; 3. Re-visioning Revision: An English Teacher's Experience; 4. A Special Needs Teacher's Experience; 5. 'Enhancing Classroom Learning': A Head of Department's Experience; 6. A Secondary Whole-School Perspective; 7. Using the CSP Model in Curriculum Development; 8. Using the CSP Model with Staff and Pupils; 9. Critical Signs and Clear Portents; 10. The Box of Frogs: A Further Education Perspective; Section 4: Lessons from the USA; 1. Staying Alive with CSP: Advice for Newly Trained CSP Teachers; 2. CSP in Your School: Greenhouse or Gobi? Advice for Senior Managers; 3. Frequently Asked Questions; Section 5: Lessons for the UK; National Educational Initiatives and CSP; Bibliography; Index.