This comprehensive guide book for governors specifically focuses on providing clear guidance on issues facing schools now. Topics covered include: *the Home-School agreement *the school day, the school year *citizenship *literacy and numeracy provision *school self-evaluation and the light-touch inspection. The book addresses issues that are new to all governors.

This text is about governing schools - about how a body made up of "ordinary" people with no professional educational experience can make a postitive contribution to the management of schools. The core of the book lays out a strategic model of school governance and considers the three key roles of planning, monitering and evaluating. Practical examples and sample procedures which governing bodies can adapt are provided. The book also looks at: the accountability of govenors; their formal duties; how they should behave in schools; the crucial relationship between govenors, staff, headteachers, communities and local authority; and the issue of inspection.

?The Effective School Governor? focuses on the work of the individual governor. It helps the reader develop a clear understanding of his/her own personal effectiveness. It then advises the reader on the best ways to make this effectiveness count, both as an individual governor and as a team member of a governing body.A sequence of carefully structured tasks guides the reader to an informed and practical appreciation of how to function effectively in the role.What the book covers Personal qualities: how to identify, analyse and make the most of them.The individual governor?s role: what?s required, how to carry out the role, induction, training.Working with others: taking part in meetings, committee work, getting to know and understand the work of the school, building partnerships.Current thinking: the author pinpoints and summarises the main features of contemporary thinking on how governors can perform effectively.?The Effective School Governor? is an invaluable guide for new and experienced governors in both the primary and secondary sectors.The school effectiveness seriesThe Effective School Governor is the tenth title in The School Effective Series, which focuses on practical and useful ideas for individual schools and teachers. The series addresses the issues of whole school improvements and new knowledge about teaching and learning, and offers straight forward ideas which teachers can use to make life more rewarding for themselves and those they teach.

The purpose of this book is to help governing bodies to work more effectively in partnership with the staff, towards improving the quality of education provided by the school. Written in straightforward language and with a minimum of jargon, each chapter includes a number of practical activities which might form the basis of governing body training sessions. Alternatively, the book can be used privately by individual governors. The author seeks to inform and thus include governors in the debate about educational standards and school improvemei