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Title Meeting the challenges of primary schooling / edited by Lloyd Logan and Judyth Sachs
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrations
Series Educational management series
Educational management series.
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; 1 Challenges facing primary school administrators and teachers; 2 Leading and managing restructuring at the school site; 3 Strategic planning in schools; 4 Managing school development: a case study; 5 School review for improved student learning; 6 The middle years of schooling; 7 National initiatives and primary schooling; 8 Extending options for gifted and talented pupils; 9 Responding to the pupils' culture and language; 10 The gender-responsive classroom; 11 What is being learned here?
12 Introducing lap-top computers in the junior school13 Discipline in the classroom; 14 Learning partnerships; 15 Alternative ways of grouping pupils for learning; 16 Building professional community and supporting teachers as learners; 17 Musing on the future of primary schooling; Index
Summary Teachers in primary schools deal with a wide range of issues every day. This book helps teachers to understand those issues, and how they fit in with recent government policies and initiatives. Each chapter looks at: * relevant statements of policy or initiative * how these statements fit into the context of specific schools * the challenges they present for those involved in schools * how schools can respond to these challenges * learning across contexts Each chapter has been written by one practitioner and one academic and between them the chapters cover the whole range of Australian primary
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Education, Elementary -- Australia
Education, Elementary -- Australia -- Administration
Education, Elementary -- Curricula -- Australia
Elementary school teaching -- Australia
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Education, Elementary
Education, Elementary -- Administration
Education, Elementary -- Curricula
Elementary school teaching
Australia
Form Electronic book
Author Logan, Lloyd
Sachs, Judyth, 1954-
LC no. 96051866
ISBN 0203990269
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