Essential FE Toolkit – serie

This is a general introduction to surviving and succeeding in FE for frazzled teachers. Jill Jameson provides readers with helpful hints and strategies for dealing with a wide range of issues, including honing your networking skills, developing an awareness of your strengths and weaknesses and exploiting opportunities and avoiding threats.

Teaching in FE is a very stressful job. Any job involving people, plenty of targets and time-pressure is going to be stressful. Yet the sheer quantity of practitioners abandoning the profession suggests that there is more negativity and stress in FE than in any other sector of education. In this gound-breaking book, Jill Jameson explains how the RESTORER principle can help everyone in FE feel more in control of their work-life balance: Recognise the problem, Escape from the situation, Seek help, Try a range of individual solutions, Open up your mind and your life to new things, Reestablish your priorities, Energise, Renew. A must-read for for stressed out practitioners in FE.

This is a survival guide to teaching adults in FE. Amanda Hayes places students at the heart of teaching and learning and provides readers with practical strategies to help them create a stimulating and effective learning environment in college, workplace and community venues. A wide range of issues are covered including: catering for different learning styles, managing learner's expectations, promoting diversity and social inclusion, learning in the workplace and dealing with punctuality and retention. A variety of approaches are presented from which the reader can develop effective teaching and support strategies for their own situation and ensure that their adult students successfully gain academic and vocational skills, as well as self confidence.

"This practically-focused, evidence-informed, perceptive book by James Ogunleye will be essential reading for teachers of 14-19 year olds in FE for a long time to come, and I thoroughly commend it to you." - Dr Jill Jameson, Series Editor. This is a delightfully practical guide for lecturers on how to teach students aged 14 to 19 effectively. James Ogunleye's fascinating book provides readers with: a summary of the full range of academic and vocational qualifications available to 14 to 19 year olds; an overview of the current and recent national agenda for 14-19 education and training; illuminating insights into 14-19 year olds' views about teaching and learning; a full range of practical teaching techniques for lecturers which have been tried and tested at the chalk-face; an extensive list of useful publications and resources. This book should prove invaluable reading for all those working in 14-19 education.

This is a survival guide for middle managers in FE. Ann Briggs provides readers with helpful hints and strategies for dealing with the key issues associated with this role, such as managing people, liaising with other staff, being an effective leader as well as succeeding as a player-manager. Informative and engaging, this practical guide will prove essential readers for all managers in FE.

Well-written and accessible, this guide should prove essential reading for all FE lecturers.This is a general introduction to unravelling the maze of assessment in FE. Andy Armitage and Mandy Renwick provide readers with helpful hints and strategies for answering the key questions, including why, what, how and where to assess?"The Essential FE Toolkit" is Continuum's new series on further education (FE) for teachers and college leaders. The series boasts 24 specialist, fact-filled volumes written by FE experts with significant knowledge and experience in their individual fields. Competitively priced, compact and accessible, each book should prove essential reading for FE lecturers and managers.

This accessible and informative guide provides lecturers with a range of practical strategies to promote effective learning in the FE classroom. Mark Weyers introduces the learning theories that underlie these strategies, and considers how they can best be applied practically in the classroom and what place they have within a standardized National Curriculum. He offers invaluable advice on planning interesting lessons and learning tasks that also meet exam board specifications.

Money, targets and budgets overshadow life and work in colleges. The systems for funding colleges are notoriously complicated and too few people understand how they work. Too few know how and where colleges spend their money. This book demystifies college finance and provides insights that will be valuable for governors, managers, lecturers and anyone who works in the sector.

"The Essential FE Toolkit" is Continuum's brand new series on further education (FE) for teachers and college leaders. The series boasts 24 specialist, fact-filled volumes written by FE experts with significant knowledge and experience in their individual fields. Competitively priced, compact and accessible, each book should prove essential reading for FE lecturers and managers. This fascinating guide will examine how managers in FE can meet the challenges of promoting equality and diversity in their colleges. Beulah Ainley examines best practice examples, discusses how to ensure the equality scheme remains effective throughout the college, considers the importance of good race relations, and looks at how to provide appropriate services to meet the needs of diverse range of students.

This fascinating guide provides an overview of three key policy initiatives in FE - Success for All, Skills for Life and the new qualifications framework. For each initiative, Yvonne Hillier discusses the implications for implementing policy within particular institutions, and how change and working with staff can be managed to best achieve the intended aims of each policy. As all these initiatives are fast changing, an important theme throughout the book is the need to keep up-to-date. It is an essential reading for every manager in FE.

This is an invaluable guide to making sense of the myriad of issues surrounding diversity and inclusion in FE. The authors, all experts in their field, provide readers with helpful hints and practical strategies for teaching a wide variety of students, including: refugees; those with Special Educational Needs (in particular, dyslexia and ASD); those for whom English is a second language; young learners (14-16); and those with behavioural difficulties. This should prove essential reading for lecturers everywhere.

In recent years, further education colleges have been asked to play an increasingly important role as providers of higher education programmes. Following the recommendation of the Dearing inquiry that colleges be accorded a special mission in sub-degree higher education, they have become key partners in the design and teaching of new-style Foundation degrees. In so doing, they are expected to meet employer demand for higher-level skills and broaden the social base of undergraduate education. Aimed at senior managers and higher education coordinators and tutors, this book is a guide to institutional strategy and good practice in the provision of higher education in further education. It addresses issues of organisation, planning and funding as well as staffing, teaching and quality assurance.

This is a general introduction to surviving and succeeding in the ICT and eLearning maze for frazzled FE teachers. The authors, all experts in Information and Learning Technology, provide readers with helpful hints and strategies for dealing with a wide range of issues, including the main software packages, 'learning' gadgets and distance learning.

"The Essential FE Toolkit" is Continuum's brand new series on further education (FE) for teachers and college leaders. The series boasts 24 specialist, fact-filled volumes written by FE experts with significant knowledge and experience in their individual fields. Competitively priced, compact and accessible, each book should prove essential reading for FE lecturers and managers. This wonderfully accessible guide will introduce senior and middle managers in FE to practical strategies to encourage successful, good quality leadership and management in further education institutions. It will introduce strategic and operational leadership and management theories underlying these strategies, their practical implementation in institutions, and place within further education in the UK. The book will help readers to understand important factors to take into consideration when planning for effective strategic and operational leadership and management of FE institutions.A 'how to' guide to some key tasks for leader-managers is outlined to ensure a clear focus is maintained on learners, staff, high quality provision and good standards in leadership and management, while meeting inspectorate and external audit requirements.

This invaluable handbook is designed for more experienced teachers in FE who have mastered the basics and are ready to re-visit their professional skills in the classroom. Written by two experienced teacher trainers with over 35 years of experience of FE between them, this practical guide is divided into three key areas: teaching and learning, working with learners and managing the learning process. Ros Clow and Trevor Dawn tackle key issues such as gaining learner interest, using role play, working with the individual learner, managing disruptive behaviour, juggling a busy workload, lesson preparation and team-teaching.

This is an accessible and clearly written survival guide to Vocational Education and Training in the UK. Christopher Winch draws on recent research to answer key questions such as: Why is VET such an important area? How can European models be used to develop VET in the UK? How is VET structured and provided? And, what are the main issues facing VET today? All in all, the most user-friendly and useful guide to VET ever published.

The "Essential FE Toolkit" is Continuum's brand new series on Further Education (FE) for teachers and college leaders. The series boasts 24 specialist, fact-filled volumes written by FE experts with significant knowledge and experience in their individual fields. Competitively priced, compact and accessible, each book should prove essential reading for FE lecturers and managers. This informative and humorous "A to Z of Teaching in Further Education" includes a huge array of entries - from practical teaching tips for the classroom to more detailed explanations of recent legislation and teaching styles. Each letter contains one detailed entry and several shorter ones, ranging from assessment to inclusion, and Foundation degrees to Vocational Education and Training. Realistic and helpful, Angela Steward's advice will prove invaluable when things get really tough.

""A Survival Guide for College Managers and Leaders" is a distillation of the key skills and attitudes that you will need to possess if you are to survive and indeed thrive in such a situation. It highlights examples of good, bad and questionable practice from college leaders and managers of all ages. It is a handbook of practical advice and tried and tested approaches to the many problems and challenges that you are likely to face." - David Collins, CBE. This is the definitive survival guide to leading and managing a FE College for College Leaders and Senior Managers. The tremendously experienced and successful College Principal, David Collins, covers every aspect of running a College, from shaping the organisation and communicating a vision to planning and marketing the programme right through to dealing with people and improving quality. Accessibly and engagingly written, and packed with real-life examples, this book will prove essential reading for ambitious senior staff in the FE sector.