`This is a useful book and well written reflecting the author's
considerable experience in the field' - National School Improvement
Network News `Management Skills in Schools is a terrific digest of
many important issues, built around a clear structure that helps
the reader absorb information quickly. For the sheers scale of the
references to educational gurus, it's worth the cover price: here
is everything you need to quote' - Geoff Barton, Friday Magazine,
Times Educational Supplement `This book provides an invaluable
resource for everyone who is concerned with leadership and
management in schools. As well as dealing with key issues and
concepts it gives practical advice on strategies and techniques
which can be deployed. It will enhance and complement existing
skills as well as importing new ideas which will provide
professional stimulus for the reader' - Sir Geoff Hampton, Dean of
Education, Director of the Midlands Leadership Centre, University
of Wolverhampton `For the discerning leader wanting to develop
their personal management skills this is a "must have" resource.
Whether working through Personal Management Skills independently or
used as a professional development tool with a group of middle
managers in a school this book will make a difference to how
leaders work in schools' - Coleen R Jackson, Director, Roehampton
Education Leadership Centre University of Surrey Roehampton `This
is a timely collection of resources for those in middle management
positions in schools. It brings together ideas on self management
in addition to a comprehensive collection of materials on leading
teams of staff. Particularly noteworthy are the sections on
strategic decision making, action research in school improvement,
and dealing effectively with conflict' - Brian Fidler, Professor of
Education Management, The University of Reading Team leadership is
vital element of school success, whether at the level of
department, the curriculum area, the key stage, the phase, or in
relation to pastoral and leadership teams. The Team leader must be
skillful in creating cultures of success, and personal management
skills are at the heart of getting the best from team members. In
this book Jeff Jones shows how managers in education can contribute
to school improvement, and focuses on the essential personal and
practical management skills needed to instill a positive team
culture, and support colleagues effectively. This book is an
essential resource for those who lead and manage teams, at all
levels within schools. Dr Jeff Jones has been a senior consultant
and head of training and consultancy unit at the Centre for British
Teachers CfBT in Reading since 1998, and is the well known author
of such books as Monitoring and Evaluation for School Improvement,
(2000), and Performance Management for School Improvement (2001)
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