Improving Schools Through Collaborative Enquiry
Improving Schools Through Collaborative Enquiry

Author: David Jackson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-07-15

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 144111727X

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It is hard for individual practitioners to explore their practice and the issues and questions it raises about learning and teaching, on their own. Practitioners need the support of colleagues to make sense of the complexities of their practice. This book is about how collaborative enquiry can be developed amongst practitioners in schools, and between practitioners across schools. It alsp places emphasis on why it is important to do so. The authors show how a system underpinned by the accumulated knowledge of practitioners can transform learning and teaching.

Corporation Tax
Corporation Tax

Author: Great Britain: National Audit Office

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2006-01-13

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0102936641

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Corporation Tax is charged on the profits of around a million companies conducting business in the UK, and after certain adjustments to profits presented in a company's accounts. Once registered with Companies House, companies become liable for Corporation Tax when they begin business. In 2004-05, HM Revenue and Customs (the Department) collected £33 billion in tax. Companies submit company tax returns to the Department, which processes and checks them for non-compliance and collects the tax. This NAO report examines the management of Corporation Tax and sets out the following conclusions and recommendations: that HM Revenue and Customs has increased the yield from the tax through a more structured approach to risk assessment and better management of information; a greater yield from the tax may be obtained through matching resources to risk across the tax network; a reorganization of local compliance work into fewer and larger offices, could provide improvements in effectiveness and efficiency, with a matching of staffing levels and experience to local compliance risks and workloads; the Department should pursue its' stronger focus on taxpayers' needs together with any tax simplification, and reduce compliance burdens for companies, which should increase levels of compliance, thus ensuring companies understand and meet their requirements in regard of Corporation Tax.

Practitioner Enquiry
Practitioner Enquiry

Author: George Gilchrist

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1351867563

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Practitioner Enquiry: Professional Development with Impact for Teachers, Schools and Systems offers an accessible, step-by-step guide to practitioner enquiry, describing what practitioner enquiry is, what its adoption in schools entails, and what research and experience says about its benefits and possible pitfalls. Written by an experienced Headteacher who has worked with many schools to support their own engagement with practitioner enquiry, and who has been using the approach himself for over eight years, the chapters examine all aspects of its theory, practice and engagement. The book includes a variety of case studies to explore the effect of practitioner enquiry across a range of settings, and to show how you can bring about deep, sustainable and embedded change that has positive impacts for all learners. Chapters cover: how you can create the conditions for succeeding with practitioner enquiry the process of enquiring into your practice the role of school leaders and teachers in successful enquiry processes the benefits you may expect from such enquiry case studies from a number of different contexts, showing enquiry in action examples of research posters produced by teachers involved in enquiry. Practitioner Enquiry serves as a much-needed injection of up-to-date research into the field, combining theory and practice in an engaging and comprehensive style. It will be key reading for teachers and school leaders in both primary and secondary sectors.

Understanding and Teaching Primary Geography
Understanding and Teaching Primary Geography

Author: Simon Catling

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 1526451018

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This book outlines how good teaching of primary geography can extend children′s world awareness and help them make connections between their environmental and geographical experiences. Chapters offer guidance on important learning and teaching issues as well as the use and creation of resources from the school environment to the global context. It covers all the key topics in primary geography including: understanding places physical and human geography environmental sustainability learning outside the classroom global issues citizenship and social justice. Summaries, classroom examples and practical and reflective tasks are included throughout to foster understanding and support the effective teaching of primary geography.

The Enquiring Teacher
The Enquiring Teacher

Author: Susan Groundwater-Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1136613013

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First Published in 1988. Throughout this book 'enquiring teachers' is taken to mean those who are students on courses, successful completion of which depends in part on their undertaking one or more enquiries into their own practice or that of their colleagues. This Introduction presents some definitions and then discusses the implications for teachers who become students on enquiry-based courses, for the schools and colleges in which they teach and for the colleges, polytechnics, universities and teachers' centres which mount and teach the courses.

Geochemistry and Health (1988)
Geochemistry and Health (1988)

Author: J.N. Martin

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1351364464

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This volume comprises the proceedings of a three-day meeting held at the Royal Society, London, UK on 22,23,24 April 1987. The combined second International Symposium on Geochemistry and Health and 5th European Meeting of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health was sponsored by the International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, UMESCO, the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health and Imperial College with additional finacial supposrt from the UK Department of the Environment, the Royal Society, London and the Southern California Edison Company.

Connecting Inquiry and Professional Learning in Education
Connecting Inquiry and Professional Learning in Education

Author: Anne Campbell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1136032061

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How might inquiry enhance the professional practice of student and practising teachers, teacher educators and other practitioners? What effect might this have on the learning of young people in and outside of the classroom? Based on the findings of an international colloquium and drawing upon a range of practices from the UK, USA, Canada, Europe and Australia, this book is designed to make explicit the connections between Practitioner Inquiry and Teacher Professional Learning in Initial Teacher Education and Ongoing Teacher Professional Development. Considering issues such as the relationship between practitioner inquiry and pedagogical content knowledge whether it is possible to scale up from small local and intensive innovations to more broadly-based inquiry inquiry’s role in professional identity, both individual and communal prevailing socio-political contexts and consequences for social policy formation. It brings together writers who work in designing teacher education courses, and those who are practice-based researchers and policy makers. Crucially, many of these writers inhabit both spheres, and their accounts of how they successfully combine their multiple roles will prove vital reading for all those involved in examining and improving practice leading to enhanced teacher professional learning.