Tweak to Transform
Improving Teaching: a Practical Handbook for School Leaders
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2002
264 pages
978-1-85539-434-6 (ISBN)
Description
Improving teaching is the key to genuine and sustainable school improvement. Improvement involves persuading teachers to change and develop their practice but, as anyone who has ever tried will testify, this is far from easy. The focus of Tweak to Transform is what head teachers and school leaders can do to manage the change process and improve the quality of teaching in a school. Essentially, Tweak to Transform is a practical handbook that seeks to address three questions.
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- What do we know about leading and managing the improvement process?
While there is no single successful recipe for improving teaching in a school, this book attempts to establish some key principles. The result is a collection of thoughts, activities strategies and models that have been developed and successfully implemented in a wide range of schools.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-85539-434-6 (9781855394346)
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Book
06/2002
Network Educational Press Ltd
€82.50
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Person
Mike Hughes has extensive experience of working with teachers to help them develop and improve their classroom practice.
During a 20 year teaching career, he worked as a head of department, deputy head and head teacher, and spent time working in an advisory capacity for Gloucestershire LEA in the field of teaching and learning. He is now advising and supporting a wide variety of schools in their efforts to improve teaching quality, both working at strategic leadership level and coaching individual teachers in the classroom. He is well known for his work in the field of teaching and learning styles, having developed a reputation for being prepared to put his ideas into practice on a daily basis.
He has done extensive INSET work and runs training sessions based on the book Tweak to Transform with Osiris Educational. You can find more details here.
During a 20 year teaching career, he worked as a head of department, deputy head and head teacher, and spent time working in an advisory capacity for Gloucestershire LEA in the field of teaching and learning. He is now advising and supporting a wide variety of schools in their efforts to improve teaching quality, both working at strategic leadership level and coaching individual teachers in the classroom. He is well known for his work in the field of teaching and learning styles, having developed a reputation for being prepared to put his ideas into practice on a daily basis.
He has done extensive INSET work and runs training sessions based on the book Tweak to Transform with Osiris Educational. You can find more details here.
Content
Preface to the first edition
Foreword - by Professor John West-Burnham
Section One - Introduction
Section Two, - What do we know about change?
Section Three - What do we know about learning?
Section Four - Leading the improvement process
Section Five - Coaching
Section Six - The role of middle managers
Section Seven - Case studies
Section Eight - Now tweak it
References and further reading
Index
