This complete INSET course for schools shows teachers how to improve behaviour in the classroom. This resource provides support, guidance and information to facilitate the enhancement of positive behaviour management approaches. The authors have provided photocopiable resources and training materials for use with staff groups or individuals. Drawing on their experience of dealing with children's emotional behavioural difficulties and their work in mainstream schools, the authors explore the behavioural issues which challenge teachers on a daily basis and discuss how teachers can meet these...

"A very important study that will appeal to a disability studies audience as well as scholars in social movements, social justice, critical pedagogy, literacy education, professional development for disability and learning specialists in access centers and student counseling centers, as well as the broader domains of sociology and education."
---Melanie Panitch, Ryerson University

"Ableism is alive and well in higher education. We do not know how to abandon the myth of the 'pure (ivory) tower that props up and is propped up by ableist ideology.' . . . Mad at School is...

Feedback is a crucial element of teaching, learning and assessment. There is, however, substantial evidence that staff and students are dissatisfied with it, and there is growing impetus for change. Student Surveys have indicated that feedback is one of the most problematic aspects of the student experience, and so particularly in need of further scrutiny. Current practices waste both student learning potential and staff resources. Up until now the ways of addressing these problems has been through relatively minor interventions based on the established model of feedback providing...