By David Middlewood
‘It is filled with stable experience, a treasure chest of useful principles that have the credibility of being grounded in case-study fabric, and within the event of the authors, of whom are practicing headteachers. The booklet units out the foundations underpinning the educational college, yet bargains additionally a powerful pragmatic concentration and is equipped in order that it may be dipped into and whatever useful simply found…It will aid switch and development within the specialist practices enthusiastic about creating a college a stimulating studying surroundings for adults in addition to scholars' - Dr Martin J Coles, Assistant Director, nationwide collage for faculty management The ‘learning university’ defined during this ebook indicates an alternative choice to the preoccupation with checks, ambitions, and management from above, and focuses in its place on independence of studying and structural flexibility inside colleges. The authors supply an entire evaluate of ways colleges can adapt to fulfill altering wishes. they give the impression of being on the instructor as learner, studying open air the school room, and the character of management within the studying college. sensible feedback to the issues of staffing, resourcing and evaluate are all lined, allowing these in faculties to make their very own offerings. This booklet is a useful source for all mid-to-upper point managers in colleges, someone intending to those positions, or a person who takes a long term view of the longer term with studying on the center of academic perform. David Middlewood is a learn affiliate of the college of Lincoln.Richard Parker is valuable of Beauchamp collage, Leicestershire.Jackie Beere OBE is Headteacher at Campion tuition.
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Silberman (ed) The Experience of Schooling, pp. 337–345. NY: Rinehart and Winston. Willmott, T. (1992) ‘Postmodernism and excellence: the de-differentiation of economy and culture’ in Journal of Organisational Change and Management, Vol 5 (1), pp. 58–68. 33 Creating a Learning School Chapter 3 Leadership for Learning Schools Preview This chapter addresses the following questions: • What are the challenges and potential threats to leadership in new learning schools? • What demands will be placed on leaders of twenty-first century schools?
For that to happen, they will need to take on and run with the essential truth that the best learning experiences start where the learner is, not where the teacher is – and that point of view challenges much of what has been at the root of educational practice for a very long time! 135) see the headteacher as the steward of learning: 38 Leadership for Learning Schools Through personal example, in conversation, in notes to other colleagues, in some of the items in agendas for meetings, in every conceivable way, the leader will demonstrate an unending commitment to learning, personal and professional; the steward of learning will put in place those structures that say overtly that here learning is vital and honoured.
Jeffrey, B. and Woods, P. (1998) Testing Teachers: The Effect of School Inspections on Primary Teachers. London: Falmer Press Middlewood, D. (2005) ‘Leading and managing staff and organistional learning’ in T. Bush and D. Middlewood Leading and Managing People in Education. London: Paul Chapman. Preedy, M. (2001) ‘Curriculum evaluation: measuring what we value’ in D. Middlewood and N. Burton (eds) Managing the Curriculum. London: Paul Chapman. Rogers, C. (1980) A Way of Being. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
