Making Key Stage 3 Count - Second Edition

READER REVIEW: "The most influential book I read as a headteacher. This book is a MUST for senior leaders." ***** - UPDATED AND EXPANDED SECOND EDITION: According to Ofsted, the quality of teaching and pupils' progress in Years 7, 8 and 9 are not good enough. These weaknesses, they say, reflect a general lack of priority given to Key Stage 3 by school leaders. This book offers help and advice on how to lead Years 7, 8 and 9 in order to ensure that those three years of a child's education that constitute Key Stage 3 do not prove to be time wasted during which the attainment gap is allowed to widen but are - instead - fruitful, enjoyable and rewarding. This book will help you to: ensure your curriculum offer at Key Stage 3 is broad and balanced and that teaching is of a high quality and thus prepares pupils for more challenging subsequent study at GCSE; improve the transition from Key Stage 2 to 3 so that it focuses as much on pupils' academic needs as it does on their pastoral needs; ensure assessment and tracking at Key Stage 3 is robust and focuses on the needs of disadvantaged pupils, including the most able, in order to close the achievement gap as quickly as possible; ensure homework helps pupils to make good progress, and develop effective literacy and numeracy strategies. -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR: M J Bromley is an experienced education leader, teacher, writer, consultant, speaker and trainer. Find out more at www.bromleyeducation.co.uk. Follow him on Twitter: @mj_bromley -- PRAISE FOR 'TEACH 2' BY M J BROMLEY: "A wise, accessible and practically useful book" - Professor Bill Lucas, author of Educating Ruby - "Compelling, clear and convincingly argued" - Dr Jill Berry, author of Making the Leap - "A useful summary of research [and] a helpful contribution to the literature" - Mary Myatt, senior inspector and author of High Challenge Low Threat -- PUBLISHED BY: Autus Books - @AutusBooks