Description |
1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Educational management series
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Educational management series.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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? |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Education, Elementary -- Australia.
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Education, Elementary. |
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Australia. |
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Education, Elementary -- Australia -- Administration.
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Administration. |
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Education, Elementary -- Curricula -- Australia.
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Education, Elementary -- Curricula. |
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Elementary school teaching -- Australia.
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Elementary school teaching. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Logan, Lloyd.
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Sachs, Judyth, 1954-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Meeting the challenges of primary schooling. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997 (DLC) 96051866 |
ISBN |
0203990269 |
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9780203990261 |
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0415146550 (paperback) |
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9780415146555 (paperback) |
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