An Essential Guide to Improving Attendance in your School
Practical resources for all school managers
1st Edition
Published on 7. November 2013
200 pages
978-1-134-66187-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this engaging book Professor Ken Reid focuses on the needs of school professionals and leaders, providing them with workable, achievable solutions to radically reducing their truancy rates. As well as discussing the importance of regular attendance and the importance of sound leadership, Professor Reid provides:
A highly effective whole school strategy for use in both primary and secondary schools
Checklists on good practice
Early intervention strategies
Advice on using attendance panels
Guidance on effective monitoring schemes
Supporting throughout with case-studies, sample letters, reports, attendance calendars and action plans, this book will be an essential staff-room resource for head teachers, deputy head teachers, teachers and any educational professional eager to raise standards for all.
A highly effective whole school strategy for use in both primary and secondary schools
Checklists on good practice
Early intervention strategies
Advice on using attendance panels
Guidance on effective monitoring schemes
Supporting throughout with case-studies, sample letters, reports, attendance calendars and action plans, this book will be an essential staff-room resource for head teachers, deputy head teachers, teachers and any educational professional eager to raise standards for all.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Adult education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
62 s/w Tabellen
62 Tables, black and white
File size
5,45 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-66187-9 (9781134661879)
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Person
Professor Ken Reid has spent a lifetime in this field and was awarded an OBE for his Services to Education by the Queen in 2010 for this work.
He has written over 150 articles in academic journals based on his research in this and related fields and he was the Chair of the Welsh Assembly Government Review into School Behaviour and Attendance and has more recently, written a special Report for the Minister of Education and Skills in Wales on this subject.
He is currently the Advisor to the Welsh Government on school behaviour and attendance and has previously published several books for Routledge.
He is also Associate Editor of Educational Studies for Taylor & Francis & on the Editorial Board of other Journals
He has written over 150 articles in academic journals based on his research in this and related fields and he was the Chair of the Welsh Assembly Government Review into School Behaviour and Attendance and has more recently, written a special Report for the Minister of Education and Skills in Wales on this subject.
He is currently the Advisor to the Welsh Government on school behaviour and attendance and has previously published several books for Routledge.
He is also Associate Editor of Educational Studies for Taylor & Francis & on the Editorial Board of other Journals
Content
1. The Importance of Regular Attendance 2. The Importance of Sound Leadership: Some Policy Initiatives 3. A Whole-School strategy at the Primary level 4. A Whole-School Strategy at the Secondary Level 5. Some Effective Good Practice in Schools 6. A Checklist on Good Practice 7. Early Intervention Strategies 8.Using Attendance Panels 9.Using Effective Monitoring Schemes 10. Some New Approaches
