The 2012 Teachers' Standards in the Classroom (Achieving QTS Series)

The 2012 Teachers' Standards in the Classroom (Achieving QTS Series)

by RoyBlatchford (Author)

Synopsis

All teachers and trainee teachers need to work towards and within the framework of the Teachers' Standards. This is the essential guide to the application of these standards in the classroom.

The text is written to support teachers and trainee teachers to interpret the standards effectively and independently, and to apply them to their teaching. The chapters mirror the standards themselves and practical guidance and classroom based examples help the reader link theory to practice. The text supports the reader to enhance their understanding of the standards and to see how their effective application can improve teaching and professional practice.

About the Achieving QTS series

All the books in this successful series support trainees through their initial teacher training and guide them in the acquisition of their subject knowledge, understanding and classroom practice. All new titles within the series are linked to the 2012 Teachers' Standards and consider the impact of key government initiatives.

Roy Blatchford is Director of the National Education Trust (www.nationaleducationtrust.net) and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Edition: 1
Publisher: Learning Matters
Published: 11 Jan 2013

ISBN 10: 1446256340
ISBN 13: 9781446256343

Author Bio
Roy Blatchford is Director of the National Education Trust www.nationaleducationtrust.net Previously he was Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools (HMI) in England, with lead responsibilities for school improvement and for the national inspection of good and outstanding schools. Roy has extensive experience of writing inspection frameworks, nationally and internationally, and has inspected and reviewed over 700 schools and colleges in the UK and Europe, USA, Middle East and India. Roy was Principal (1999 - 2003) of Walton High and Walton Learning Centre in Milton Keynes, opened in September 1999 and described by OFSTED as 'a first class centre of learning - innovative and inspiring'. He was Founding Director (1996 - 1998) of Reading Is Fundamental, UK a non-profit organisation developing children's reading and family literacy. From 1986 - 1996 he was Headteacher of Bicester Community College, an Oxfordshire comprehensive school serving 1200+ 11 - 19 year old students. He spent twelve years teaching in inner-London schools, youth and adult services, and has for thirty years been a trainer and speaker with schools, parents, governors and local authorities on literacy, raising student achievement, curriculum development, school improvement, leadership and innovation. He has served as an adviser to various governments, and was recently vice-chair of the DfE Teachers' Standards Review. Roy has worked with HM Prison Service, the NHS and the Arts Council in a number of voluntary capacities. He is the author/editor of over 150 books, including Sparkling Classrooms and is a regular contributor to the national press. Roy is the author of the Learning Matters text The 2012 Teachers' Standards in the Classroom.