The students
Description
Gary Lewis became headteacher of Kings Langley School, a mixed comprehensive school in Hertfordshire, nearly five years ago. After a major relaunch he now presides over an improving and oversubscribed school. This film follows Gary during the spring term of 2007, focusing on his drive to improve behaviour and to improve the critical KS4 results. Gary has introduced a behaviour management system loosely based on the football model of coloured cards which has vastly reduced the number of exclusions at the school. To boost the all important GCSE results, a group of thirty five students is identified who failed to achieve their predicted grades in the trial exams and who receive additional tuition and mentoring from Gary and his staff. Will the percentage of A*-C grades increase as a result ...?
Runtime
16 min
Series
Subjects
- Remedial teaching (8)
- Behavior modification (215)
- Educational tests and measurements (182)
- School improvement programs (50)
- Academic achievement (96)
- School principals (63)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2006
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?EDIV;1742886
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