Explains the requirements of the CPD Co-ordinator role. This title advises on how to assess your school's development needs, engage staff, get middle leaders and the Senior Leadership Group on board and boost morale. It provides guidance on how to observe colleagues for development, and how to conduct an exemplary NQT induction programme.
At some point in every teacher's career he/she will encounter the 'hard class'. Bill Rogers highlights many practical strategies that can be implemented to overcome the hard class syndrome.
This book offers guidelines for involving staff, parents, and students in school development, with a CD-ROM of reproducibles to customize the program to your own school culture.
Updated Edition of Bestseller! Marlowe and Page bring together constructivist theory with step-by-step guidance and ready-to-use checklists to make constructivist learning a reality in your classroom.
Contains chapters on intuitive cognition, complexity, emotion, team innovation, development and well-being. This textbook includes seminal papers on creativity, perception, style, culture and sustainable development. It gives an overview of the topics discussed whilst explaining their practical implications.
This textbook reveals the importance of creativity and innovation in today's organizations. It provides students with the principles and practices entailed in the new form of management associated with creative and innovative organizations. The text introduces the creative approaches in management, revealing the role and impact of cognition, intuition and perception. Jane Henry differentiates between a variety of personal styles and shows their implications for creativity, problem solving, communication, decision making and role preference. Students using this textbook will understand the impact of cultural values and certain historical habits of thought on management and organization, and identify the main ways in which management can enable organizations to be more sustainable and responsible. The text includes student activities, illustrative cartoons, boxed examples and recommended readings. This book is a key course text of The Open University Business School MBA course Creativity, Innovation and Change.