Creating outstanding classrooms / Oliver Knight, David Benson

Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Learning in the 21st century
A whole-school approach
The challenge facing education
A paradigm shift
A new role for assessment
The whole-school model
How to use this book
PART 1
1. Curriculum planning
Stage 1 Introduction to medium-term planning the Teaching and Learning cycle
Stage 2 getting more complex surface, deep and conceptual understanding
Stage 3 Going deeper still Performances of Understanding and evidence of thinking
Stage 4 Disciplinary thinking
Stage 5 Fertile Questions planning for progression in understanding
Stage 6 the Learner Profile
Stage 7 Medium-term plans frameworks for progression in understanding
Conclusions

PART 2
2. Teacher practices
The nuts and bolts
Lesson structure and planning
Questioning and creating a culture of inquiry
Mindsets
Creating the climate for excellence in every lesson

PART 3
Contents note continued: 3.Every teacher is a teacher of language
Every teacher a reading teacher
Talk is how learning happens
The writing process

PART 4
4. Assessment models
What do we value and are we assessing it?
Formative assessment models
Summative assessment models

PART 5
5. Leadership
The framework for creating the culture
Section 1 Leadership as a cultural statement
Section 2 Using data to drive a whole-school dialogue around learning
Section 3 Modelling lifelong learning
Section 4 Using Line Management systems to maintain the focus on learning
Conclusions.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-402) and index.