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1. Managing School Attendance

   Successful Intervention Strategies for Reducing Truancy

   By Ken Reid

   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....

   To Be Published July 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations

   Using values-based education to promote positive learning

   By Gill Ellis, Nicola S. Morgan, Ken Reid

   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...

   To Be Published February 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Tackling Behaviour in your Primary School

   A practical handbook for teachers

   By Ken Reid, Nicola S. Morgan

   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...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Rethinking Teacher Education

   Edited by David Hopkins, Ken Reid

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   In recent years there has been a new mood in teacher education. The emphasis is on professional studies, on encouraging trainee teachers to think intelligently about how to tackle problems of the classroom.This book surveys the developments which are taking it further in both Britain and...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
5. Facility Management Reference Library CD, Second Edition

   By Ed Bas, Heinz P. Bloch, Allan R. Budris, Joseph F. Gustin, Ken Heselton, James E. Piper, Robert N. Reid, P.E.

   Today's facility manager is faced with a cross-section of job responsibilities and functions. Facility Management Reference Library CD, Second Edition is a comprehensive 11-volume reference library covering, from a facility manager's perspective, everything from water systems, facility assessment,...

   Published July 7th 2005 by Fairmont Press
6. English in Urban Classrooms

   A Multimodal Perspective on Teaching and Learning, 2nd Edition

   By Jill Bourne, Anton Franks, John Hardcastle, Carey Jewitt, Ken Jones, Gunther Kress, Euan Reid

   English in Urban Classrooms is a ground-breaking text that spans a range of issues central to school English today. It extends not only to the spoken and written language of classrooms, but also to other modes of representation and communication that are important in English teaching. This includes...

   Published December 1st 2004 by Routledge
7. Truancy

   Short and Long-term Solutions

   By Ken Reid

   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...

   Published April 10th 2002 by Routledge
8. Tackling Truancy in Schools

   A Practical Manual for Primary and Secondary Schools

   By Ken Reid

   Published November 24th 1999 by Routledge
9. Truancy and Schools

   By Ken Reid

   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...

   Published September 29th 1999 by Routledge