1st Edition

Semi-Detached Teachers Building Support and Advisory Relationships in Classrooms

By Colin Biott Copyright 1991
192 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1991, the material in this book was carefully organized to enhance the understanding of the role and work of the increasing number of advisory or support teachers in the United Kingdom at the time. Drawing on first-hand experience, it includes personal accounts from two semi-detached teachers who have taken the risk of doing their jobs in other people’s schools and... Read more

Acknowledgments.  List of Tables and Figures.  Series Editors’ Preface.  Introduction.  Part I: Being Semi-Detached  1. Advisory Teaching: An Uncertain Role in Transition Colin Biott  2. Being a Support or Advisory Teacher: Satisfactions and Dissatisfactions Colin Biott  3. Advisory Teaching as a Rewarding Career Phase Colin Biott  Part II: Personal Accounts  4. Working and Learning in Other People’s Classrooms Mike Sullivan  5. Cosy or Critical Classroom Support? Graham Atkinson  Part III: Learning Together in the Classroom  6. Collaborative Action Research: Working Together Towards Professional Development Bridget Somekh  7. The Visible Supporter with No Invisible Means of Support: The ESG Teacher and the Classteacher Patrick Easen  Part IV: Managing a Support Service  8. Supporting a Teaching Support Service: Curriculum Change Through Action Research Maggie McKenna  9. Advisory Teacher Management: Towards an Entitlement Model George Robinson  Part V: The School Context  10. Advisory Teachers and School Development Colin Biott.  Notes on Contributors.  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Colin Biott