Inspirations (a Collection Of Commentaries To Promote School Improvement)

Tim Brighouse and David Woods, both well known for their work on school improvement, offer an invigorating collection of commentaries, quotations and ’butterflies’, designed to provide inspiration for positive changes across the whole school-in teaching, learning, school management and leadership, and beyond This invaluable book seeks to answer questions such as What is the purpose of education and how do we go about it? Where is the balance between management and leadership, and what are the skills of a successful leader? What makes a good teacher into an outstanding one? How does the quality of learning affect school improvement, and what is the role of the teacher as learner? What are the characteristics and methods of a school that is committed to the path of improvement? About Author: S Tim Brighouse is Chief Adviser to the Government for London Schools and a visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London. David Woods is the Lead Adviser for the London Challenge and an Honorary Professor of Education at the University of Warwick.