Changing Life Chances: Practical Projects and Endeavours in Schools

✍ Scribed by Robin Richardson

• Publisher: Trentham Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 101
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The link between a child’s background and their chance of success at school and in later life is known to be strong. But it is not the determining factor–schools can and do make a real difference to learning outcomes. This book describes a range of effective practical projects in schools and the principles underlying good practice.

Chapters consider
issues of social class and socio-economic disadvantage
issues relating to ethnicity, gender and disability
special educational needs
the needs of young people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds
a project on language, especially the concept of academic language
modifying teachers’ expectations and assumptions
* transition arrangements between primary and secondary schools.

The book is a follow-up to the best-selling Trentham handbooks by Robin Richardson: Here, There and Everywhere (2005) and Holding Together (2009). It has the same engaging layout, with much use of case-studies, stories and pithy quotations. Most, though not all, of the practical examples are drawn from one local authority, Derbyshire, but are of wide relevance and interest, both nationally and internationally.