Improved Learning Professional Practice In Secondary Schools

About the Author Derek Glover is a Visiting Professor of Education at Nottingham Trent University. After 18 years' experience as the head of a large community school, he completed his PhD with the Open University and began his 'second career' teaching, researching and publishing in the fields of school organization, financial management and the management of school reputation. Sue Law is Professor of Education and Head of the Department of Secondary and Tertiary Education at Nottingham Trent University. After teaching for 20 years, she became Director of Continuing Professional Development at Keele University, where she established innovative distancelearning MBA and MA educational management programs. She now balances leadership of a large University department with researching and publishing on teachers' professional development, education management and educational policymaking. Product Description Improving Learning has developed from research into initiatives for school improvement in a range of secondary schools. It considers the views of students initially and then charts action being undertaken to enhance the environment of classroom and school: to develop challenge in teaching and learning; to consider learning styles and the use of teaching strategies to meet these; to analyse the nature of successful staff student relationships; to help students to see the rationale for and importance of integration in the curriculum; to chronicle endeavours being made to achieve gender equality.