Colin Jackson – författare

Colin Jackson is one of the greatest athletes that Britain has ever produced.  He was in the world top ten for 16 years, and was world number 1 for two of them.  He set seven European and Commonwealth and nine UK records, and he still holds the world record for indoor hurdling.In 2003 Colin retired from athletics in front of an adoring home crowd.  Then real life began.  In Life’s New Hurdles Colin describes the shock of adjusting to sudden change.  How would he manage without the strict routine of training and competing that had been  his life since the age of 17?  Would he forever long  to be back on the track?   And how satisfying would his new career be as a sports presenter and television personality?  From athletics commentating to Strictly Come Dancing, Colin describes the challenges and joys of starting a whole new life.

This book is about the promotion of all-attainment teaching in the mathematics classroom. The book contains the individual stories of six teachers working in three different schools: an inner London comprehensive with a largely working class intake, a comprehensive on the south coast and a rural comprehensive in Cambridgeshire.  Each story describes and explains in brief the background of the teacher and how each came to teach all-attainment groups in mathematics. The research reported in this book is the only close examination and analysis of the practices and methodologies of successful all-attainment educators in the modern age. Three major themes are identified and examined: what sustains the teachers; how they introduce, develop and maintain all-attainment teaching; and how they make all-attainment work in the classroom.