First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Tackling Truancy in Schools: A Practical Manual for Primary and Secondary Schools

Education & Teaching

Reid, Ken

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

At present about one million pupils truant from their schools on a daily basis and this book examines why they do it. The numerous reasons for truanting discussed are: * disadvantageous home backgrounds * problems with settling in socially at school * poor performance in school * experiencing bullying in school * not coping with the transition from primary to secondary schooling. This book focuses on the social, psychological and educational causes of truancy. It examines recent research and gives many examples of good practice while also detailing the latest solutions for tackling this problem. The text is for teachers, heads of year and department heads, senior school managers, education welfare officers, social workers, educational psychologists, parents and all those with an interest in educational policy and practice.

Truancy and Schools

Truancy: Short and Long-term Solutions is a practical and accessible guide to dealing with the problem of truancy and non-attendance. It is the first book on the issue to actively focus on solutions to the problem, rather than the causes. Full of practical examples of the latest ways in which schools, teachers, education welfare officers and LEAs try to overcome their attendance difficulties. Ken Reid identifies nearly 120 short-term solutions as well as several long-term strategic approaches. The book also considers parental-condoned absenteeism, alternative curriculum schemes and mentoring, while the final chapter presents some strategic issues which policy-makers and politicians need to overcome. This book provides all teachers, deputy heads, head teachers, education welfare staff, social workers, learning mentors and other caring professionals with a repository of up-to-date ideas and solutions. It is essential reading for anyone involved in addressing the challenge of truancy.

Truancy

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations: Using values-based education to promote positive learning

How can we create effective partnerships between home, school and the community? How can the relationships and communication between families and school be strengthened? How can families help schools to improve behaviour in their children, both at home and at school? Using a tried and tested framework that has been successfully implemented throughout a wide variety of very different schools and settings, ‘Family Values’ is a Scheme which engages and empowers families to work in close collaboration with schools and organisations, and which results in long-term improvements in behaviour, communication, pupil achievement and relationships. The ‘Family Values’ Scheme has been proven to: <ul>
<li>Help pupils to be more academically diligent</li> <li>Help schools to assume a calmer, more peaceful ambience</li> <li>Forge better pupil-teacher relationships</li> <li>Improve Pupil and teacher wellbeing</li> <li>Help parents to be more engaged with the school</li> <li>Improve children’s literacy, behaviour and attendance</li> <li>Provide head teachers and their staff with an effective whole-school strategy.</li> </ul>
The authors’ award-winning ‘Family Values’ Scheme is underpinned by sound theoretical principles, and they show here how it has been successfully put into practice through case studies in real school settings. The book explores how the Scheme promotes social, emotional and family system theories, and, in linking effectively to SEAL (social and emotional aspects of learning), the Scheme compliments existing personal and social education programmes in all schools. Showing schools and organisations how to create effective partnerships with families and the community in a fun, exciting and sustainable way, Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations will be of huge benefit to all school staff, as well as local authorities, support groups, parents, charities and services.

Morgan, Nicola S.

Ellis, Gill

How can we create effective partnerships between home, school and the community? How can the relationships and communication between families and school be strengthened? How can families help schools to improve behaviour in their children, both at home and at school? Using a tried and tested framework that has been successfully implemented throughout a wide variety of very different schools and settings, ‘Family Values’ is a Scheme which engages and empowers families to work in close collaboration with schools and organisations, and which results in long-term improvements in behaviour, communication, pupil achievement and relationships. The ‘Family Values’ Scheme has been proven to: <ul>
<li>Help pupils to be more academically diligent</li> <li>Help schools to assume a calmer, more peaceful ambience</li> <li>Forge better pupil-teacher relationships</li> <li>Improve Pupil and teacher wellbeing</li> <li>Help parents to be more engaged with the school</li> <li>Improve children’s literacy, behaviour and attendance</li> <li>Provide head teachers and their staff with an effective whole-school strategy.</li> </ul>
The authors’ award-winning ‘Family Values’ Scheme is underpinned by sound theoretical principles, and they show here how it has been successfully put into practice through case studies in real school settings. The book explores how the Scheme promotes social, emotional and family system theories, and, in linking effectively to SEAL (social and emotional aspects of learning), the Scheme compliments existing personal and social education programmes in all schools. Showing schools and organisations how to create effective partnerships with families and the community in a fun, exciting and sustainable way, Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations will be of huge benefit to all school staff, as well as local authorities, support groups, parents, charities and services.

Tackling Behaviour in your Primary School: A practical handbook for teachers

Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School provides ready-made advice and support for classroom professionals and can be used, read and adapted to suit the busy everyday lives of teachers working in primary schools today. This valuable text sets the scene for managing behaviour in the primary classroom in the context of the Children Act 2004 agenda, making it highly relevant to trainee primary teachers, learning school mentors, classroom assistants, behaviour specialists and senior management teams. As experts in the field of behaviour management, the authors draw on their many years of experience to provide evidenced whole-school strategies, extensively-researched concepts and step-by-step behaviour programmes. Topics covered include: <ul>
<li>Understanding behaviour</li> <li>How to measure behaviour and why this can be an effective approach</li> <li>Using and implementing whole-school behaviour policies</li> <li>Honing your classroom management skills</li> <li>Managing bullying</li> <li>Dealing with specific classroom difficulties</li> <li>Working effectively and supportively with parents.</li> </ul>
Drawing on case-studies throughout, this handbook will help you to understand and deal with the most confrontational of classroom behaviour. Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School provides all staff, parents and carers engaged in health, education and social services with a ready-made resource packed full of strategies, ideas, activities and solutions to help manage behaviour in even the toughest of classrooms.

Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School provides ready-made advice and support for classroom professionals and can be used, read and adapted to suit the busy everyday lives of teachers working in primary schools today.   This valuable text sets the scene for managing behaviour in the primary classroom in the context of the Children Act 2004 agenda, making it highly relevant to trainee primary teachers, learning school mentors, classroom assistants, behaviour specialists and senior management teams. As experts in the field of behaviour management, the authors draw on their many years of experience to provide evidenced whole-school strategies, extensively-researched concepts and step-by-step behaviour programmes. Topics covered include:   Understanding behaviour   How to measure behaviour and why this can be an effective approach   Using and implementing whole-school behaviour policies   Honing your classroom management skills   Managing bullying   Dealing with specific classroom difficulties   Working effectively and supportively with parents.  Drawing on case-studies throughout, this handbook will help you to understand and deal with the most confrontational of classroom behaviour. Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School provides all staff, parents and carers engaged in health, education and social services with a ready-made resource packed full of strategies, ideas, activities and solutions to help manage behaviour in even the toughest of classrooms.

An Essential Guide to Improving Attendance in your School: Practical resources for all school managers

In this engaging book Professor Ken Reid focuses on the needs of school professionals and leaders, providing them with workable, achievable solutions to radically reducing their truancy rates. As well as discussing the importance of regular attendance and the importance of sound leadership, Professor Reid provides: <ul>
<li>A highly effective whole school strategy for use in both primary and secondary schools</li> <li>Checklists on good practice</li> <li>Early intervention strategies</li> <li>Advice on using attendance panels</li> <li>Guidance on effective monitoring schemes</li>
</ul>
Supporting throughout with case-studies, sample letters, reports, attendance calendars and action plans, this book will be an essential staff-room resource for head teachers, deputy head teachers, teachers and any educational professional eager to raise standards for all.

An Essential Guide to Improving Attendance in your School

Managing School Attendance

Teachers and governments all agree that if you wish to raise educational standards then it’s imperative to improve school attendance, and yet an average of around ten per cent of secondary pupils are missing school on a daily basis. Despite governments around the globe trying to address this situation, any improvements have been negligible and improvements in school attendance have been stubbornly hard to achieve.  As an internationally recognised expert on this topic, Professor Ken Reid offers workable, practical solutions to help schools improve attendance and to reduce non-attendance and truancy at government level, school and local authority level, individual pupil level and at the family level. Underpinned by the very latest research, but expanded upon with an accessible, practitioner focus, the issues covered by this topical text include:   The causes of non-attendance and truancy   Successful interventions and the evidence from research   Reflections on the attempts to find national solutions   Implementing home-school solutions   An agenda for the future   Supporting throughout with case-studies and workable solutions to the most demanding of situations, this book will be essential reading for head teachers, deputy head teachers, teachers and any educational professional eager to raise standards for all.

Managing School Attendance: Successful intervention strategies for reducing truancy

Teachers and governments all agree that if you wish to raise educational standards then it’s imperative to improve school attendance, and yet an average of around ten per cent of secondary pupils are missing school on a daily basis. Despite governments around the globe trying to address this situation, any improvements have been negligible and improvements in school attendance have been stubbornly hard to achieve. As an internationally recognised expert on this topic, Professor Ken Reid offers workable, practical solutions to help schools improve attendance and to reduce non-attendance and truancy at government level, school and local authority level, individual pupil level and at the family level. Underpinned by the very latest research, but expanded upon with an accessible, practitioner focus, the issues covered by this topical text include: <ul>
<li>The causes of non-attendance and truancy</li> <li>Successful interventions and the evidence from research</li> <li>Reflections on the attempts to find national solutions</li> <li>Implementing home-school solutions</li> <li>An agenda for the future</li> </ul> Supporting throughout with case-studies and workable solutions to the most demanding of situations, this book will be essential reading for head teachers, deputy head teachers, teachers and any educational professional eager to raise standards for all.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Reid, Ken. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Reid, Ken

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Reid, Ken. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Tackling Truancy in Schools: A Practical Manual for Primary and Secondary Schools

Truancy and Schools

Truancy

Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations: Using values-based education to promote positive learning

Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations: Using values-based education to promote positive learning

Tackling Behaviour in your Primary School: A practical handbook for teachers

Tackling Behaviour in your Primary School: A practical handbook for teachers

An Essential Guide to Improving Attendance in your School

Managing School Attendance: Successful intervention strategies for reducing truancy

Managing School Attendance