Whole School Progress the Lazy Way: Follow Me, I'm Right Behind You
Autor Jim Smithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 iul 2012
Jim Smith is the laziest (but professional) teacher in town. Where the traditional view is one that focuses on the teacher's role in leading the learning, Jim's take is that of "letting the learning lead." The learners are very much in the driving seat. Practical hands-on advice.
Based on Jim Smith’s learning and leadership work with schools across the country, this book is packed with highly practical solutions and suggestions that are proven to help you improve the quality of learning (and therefore progress!) both in your classroom and across the school. And as it’s all done in the laziest possible way, it will be the pupils working harder, not you!
Following on from the acclaimed The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook, Whole school progress the LAZY way applies Jim Smith’s lazy philosophy to the thorny issue of ‘making progress’. Aimed at improving learning both in the classroom and across the school, this book once again shows how you can use Jim’s renowned ‘lazy way’ to put student’s learning first rather than your teaching or paranoia about progress. And the result? Outstanding progress in your lessons without even a hint of traffic lights, mini-whiteboards or thumbs up! Be it planning for progress, capturing evidence of progress in a lesson or using lesson observation techniques that make progress explicit, the book offers lots of new techniques which have led to ‘outstanding’ judgements during Ofsted inspections. Just ask the author!
What’s more, Jim extends his ideas across the whole school. Drawing on his experience with ‘lazy leadership’ he shows how his philosophy can have a dramatic impact on areas such as lesson observations, performance management and professional development. It’s not about leading the learning. It’s about the learning leading you. And when you let it, your school is never the same again.
“Using the techniques of his first book, Jim offers idea upon idea in a way that is entirely accessible. The ‘lazy’ bit is again the misnomer but the book does show how thinking teachers and school leaders can make their jobs enjoyable and reap the rewards for effort that makes sense.”
Mick Waters, Professor of Education, Wolverhampton University
“Still a practising teacher himself, Jim Smith writes with authority and also with respect for both the young people he teaches and the colleagues with whom he works. Underpinned by a clearly articulated paradigm and written in a refreshing, engaging and accessible style punctuated with examples drawn from his own work and from his extensive experience of working with a range of schools, this book speaks to anyone who is (or will be) part of a busy staffroom and who seeks more than a set of tips for teachers.”
Jayne Prior, Senior Teaching Fellow in Education and Director of Educational
and Professional Studies (PGCE), University of Bristol
“A thoroughly enjoyable, suitably humorous and endlessly useful read. It makes for a natural step from the The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook and takes the concept of Lazy Teaching out of the classroom and into the whole school.”
Geoff Cherrill, Vice Principal, Nova Hreod, Swindon
Based on Jim Smith’s learning and leadership work with schools across the country, this book is packed with highly practical solutions and suggestions that are proven to help you improve the quality of learning (and therefore progress!) both in your classroom and across the school. And as it’s all done in the laziest possible way, it will be the pupils working harder, not you!
Following on from the acclaimed The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook, Whole school progress the LAZY way applies Jim Smith’s lazy philosophy to the thorny issue of ‘making progress’. Aimed at improving learning both in the classroom and across the school, this book once again shows how you can use Jim’s renowned ‘lazy way’ to put student’s learning first rather than your teaching or paranoia about progress. And the result? Outstanding progress in your lessons without even a hint of traffic lights, mini-whiteboards or thumbs up! Be it planning for progress, capturing evidence of progress in a lesson or using lesson observation techniques that make progress explicit, the book offers lots of new techniques which have led to ‘outstanding’ judgements during Ofsted inspections. Just ask the author!
What’s more, Jim extends his ideas across the whole school. Drawing on his experience with ‘lazy leadership’ he shows how his philosophy can have a dramatic impact on areas such as lesson observations, performance management and professional development. It’s not about leading the learning. It’s about the learning leading you. And when you let it, your school is never the same again.
“Using the techniques of his first book, Jim offers idea upon idea in a way that is entirely accessible. The ‘lazy’ bit is again the misnomer but the book does show how thinking teachers and school leaders can make their jobs enjoyable and reap the rewards for effort that makes sense.”
Mick Waters, Professor of Education, Wolverhampton University
“Still a practising teacher himself, Jim Smith writes with authority and also with respect for both the young people he teaches and the colleagues with whom he works. Underpinned by a clearly articulated paradigm and written in a refreshing, engaging and accessible style punctuated with examples drawn from his own work and from his extensive experience of working with a range of schools, this book speaks to anyone who is (or will be) part of a busy staffroom and who seeks more than a set of tips for teachers.”
Jayne Prior, Senior Teaching Fellow in Education and Director of Educational
and Professional Studies (PGCE), University of Bristol
“A thoroughly enjoyable, suitably humorous and endlessly useful read. It makes for a natural step from the The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook and takes the concept of Lazy Teaching out of the classroom and into the whole school.”
Geoff Cherrill, Vice Principal, Nova Hreod, Swindon
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781781350065
ISBN-10: 178135006X
Pagini: 138
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 180 x 218 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: INDEPENDENT THINKING
ISBN-10: 178135006X
Pagini: 138
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 180 x 218 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: INDEPENDENT THINKING
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Progress the Lazy Way – a Preface
Introduction
1. Progress and the Lazy Inspector
2. Creating Progress in Your Lessons – The Lazy Way
3. Capturing Progress – The Lazy Way
4. Lazy Observations of Learning
5. Institutionalising Progress – In a Lazy Way
Progress the Lazy Way – an Epilogue
Recommended On-line Resources
Bibliography
Recenzii
Reviewed by Barry J Hymer, Professor of psychology in education, Education Faculty, University of Cumbria.
A welcome sequel to Jim Smith's first book, and again jam-packed with ideas for invisibly transferring the learning load onto students - this time with an emphasis on whole-school processes. Readable, amusing and quirky, I expect this to do as well as its predecessor.
Reviewed by Geoff Cherrill, Vice Principal, Nova Hreod, Swindon.
Being a self confessed fan of the Lazy Way and having read The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook, seen Jim Smith deliver INSET and been fortunate to visit the home of Lazy Teaching in Clevedon, I greeted this book with a measure of excitement and a dose of Ofsted weary cynicism. Excitement at the idea of more off beat, yet enormously effective, strategies for delivering effective progress in my classroom; and cynicism at the potential for the approach to have taken on the age old appearance of simply being last year’s educational fad.
Fortunately, I am writing this with yet more excitement and not a trace of cynicism. The book and its author maintain a sense of infectious enthusiasm, wonderful humour and genuinely intelligent comment on the educational landscape in 2012, allied to a rock solid approach to dealing with the challenging concept of ensuring every child makes progress in every lesson they encounter.
It is written in an easy, flowing style which allows you to take ideas on board and see how they relate to both current Ofsted requirements and contemporary educational thinking in general. It contains a constant stream of useful tips and strategies which can be adopted wholesale or picked carefully and adapted to your, and your class’s, own style.
The lesson model provides real scope for development in your own school, whilst maintaining its theme of children developing the capacity to understand the concept of checking their own progress. Whilst the book attempts to be light hearted and humorous, it addresses very real and very complex issues. It does this without being flippant or patronising and constantly recognises that teaching should be a job which teachers should thoroughly enjoy!
The book covers the use of data, effective lesson observation and the development of a whole school Lazy ethos. All are brought into the overall approach in a simple, sharp and rational manner which seems to make perfect sense. The seemingly endless, practical strategies which litter the text add to the feeling that you are reading a genuinely relevant and useful manual for teaching today.
The book is a thoroughly enjoyable, suitably humorous and endlessly useful read. It is a natural step from The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook and takes the concept of Lazy Teaching out of the classroom and into the whole school.
Congratulations on another inevitable success, Jim.
Mind you ... I’m sure he’s nicked a couple of my ideas!
Reviewed by Jayne Prior, Senior Teaching Fellow in Education and Director of Educational and Professional Studies (PGCE), University of Bristol.
Following the success of his first book, The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook, Jim Smith continues his exploration of ways in which everyone involved in schools, from NQTs to senior leaders, is responsible for ensuring that learning and progress are at the heart of the business of teaching, the Lazy Way.
Of interest to any practising teacher, the thorny issue of lesson observations is unpacked and the process of demonstrating ‘outstanding’ teaching demystified. He looks in particular at what is meant by ‘progress’ and how this can be planned for, and then demonstrated, within a lesson observation. Importantly, however, he doesn’t lose sight of the fact that teaching is a highly interpersonal activity carrying many rewards beyond a successful Ofsted grade.
When looking at professional development for teachers, the Lazy Way – encouraging teachers to take responsibility for their own development – is proposed and new approaches to CPD and performance management are suggested. At the heart of this lies the belief that teachers are highly skilled professionals with the potential to innovate, provided they are given the opportunity.
Still a practising teacher himself, Jim Smith writes with authority and also with respect for both the young people that he teaches and the colleagues with whom he works. Underpinned by a clearly articulated paradigm and written in a refreshing, engaging and accessible style, punctuated with examples drawn from his own work and from his extensive experience of working with a range of schools, this book speaks to anyone who is (or will be) part of a busy staffroom and who seeks more than a set of tips for teachers.
Reviewed by Mick Waters, Professor of Education at Wolverhampton University.
Jim Smith has done it again. He has picked up the approach from his first book and pushed it right to the core of the current educational buzz word: 'progress'.
'Progress' has become one of those words which it is easy to say, but harder to treat with respect. Hence it risks being treated with lip service by pupils, by teachers and at whole school level as people look over their shoulders at those who are watching them. This book cuts through all that, and offers a wealth of ideas for treating the word 'progress' seriously and ensuring that pupils have a chance of making some and knowing they have.
Using the techniques of his first book, Jim offers idea upon idea in a way that is entirely accessible. The Lazy bit is again a misnomer but the book does show how thinking teachers and school leaders can make their jobs enjoyable and reap the rewards for effort that makes sense.
Reviewed by Julia Fairhurst, Assistant Headteacher, Farnham Heathend School.
I haven't been able to out it down! Ther some really effective methods that I can use in school to support staff and their development for the benefit of our students.
Reviewed by Geraint Wilton , Lead Practitioner, St Ives School - A Technology College.
Any writer who uses the phrase “whole school progress” in the same place as the word, “lazy” has a lot to live up to; it seems like a contradiction in terms. For most of us the mention of the topic leads to thoughts of spreadsheets, data, meetings and policies, lots of policies. What Jim Smith does in this book is to set out a vision for education that has the potential to liberate both teachers and learners. More than anything it is about real progress in learning and the changes that lead to this goal. With the accountability stakes so high in education it will be a difficult thing for some teachers to let go of the learning in their classrooms in the way that this book advocates but for the sake of our children that is what we have to do. Teachers should learn to do less so that children can do more.
The book is an easy read, though you will probably find yourself stopping quite suddenly as the force of an argument takes effect on your thinking. It contains a fund of ideas for every aspect of school life, from classroom tips to lesson observation, from performance management to how to run meetings, from professional development to pupil progress. In each case the underlying principle is that we should be doing less to achieve more; hence the “Lazy “part of the title. What Jim Smith does not sacrifice is the demand for professionalism and rigour in the classroom; he simply offers a better focus for our endeavours.
This of course is where the challenge lies and where I believe the book will be of lasting value. Reading this book will make you feel that you have to change what happens in your classroom and in your school. However it won’t just make you want to change, it will give you a host of ideas about how to start the learning revolution. This is a book that will get you excited again about teaching, about trying out some of the strategies, about doing teaching and learning in a different way.
Best of all, this book holds out the promise of a engaging and fulfilling school experience for adults and children alike. At its heart is a vision for education where the pleasure and excitement of learning and the joy of leading children in their learning triumph over the deadening hand of standards and inspections. Most of all, this book gives committed professionals the validation they need to take back the initiative in the teaching and learning debate. This is a book that should be in every school.
Reviewed by Jane Hewitt, AST Dearne ALC, Barnsley and affiliate of Creative Teaching & Learning magazine.
Having a copy of ‘The Lazy teacher’s handbook which is so well thumbed it is in danger of disintegrating, I was eagerly awaiting the sequel. I have to say this was worth the wait.
How many times have I said ‘Just have a go and if you are stuck put your hand up and I’ll come and help you?’ I don’t do that anymore, I think of Jim and his Pomodoro di Pachino tomatoes (sorry but you will just have to read the book). For years I have effectively been saying to students that it’s OK to do nothing! Jim talks about ‘Learned helplessness’ and it suddenly all begins to make sense, why would students do the hard work themselves and make progress when the teacher is happy to do it for them if they just wait long enough?
The book looks at how we treat pupils and gives teachers a whole range of strategies and ideas to try, it’s the sort of book where you find yourself sticking in post it notes and scribbling in the margin.
Progress paparazzi, MANAP, Prove it, cue prompter .…and what seems like hundreds more – all ideas that teachers can try.
The section about lesson observations really turns everything on its head, by having the pupils making progress the lazy way, you as a teacher are free to discuss with the observer the actual progress that is being made. The observation question menus are a really useful tool (although I do think Mr Smith may have to go on a diet soon if his fixation with food is real and not just a tool to help us to remember ?)
CPsD (self development) is great and for years I’ve been frustrated by staff who see CPD as the province of SLT and something that they have to endure! His questions about meetings, Lesson observations and performance management are thought provoking – buy a copy for your school and encourage the questions. I love the idea of Stars in their eyes…’Today Matthew I am going to teach…’ how refreshing would that be and how much more respect might we as teachers have for one another if we tried it?
What really stands out for me are the two points Jim makes on P85.
1. It’s the students who are capturing the progress.
2. At no point is the learning coming to a shuddering halt in order to capture progress.
By following his ideas there is no longer a need for constant ‘mini plenaries’ which effectively slowed down learning and frustrated both staff and students alike.
In summing up Jim gives the moral purpose to his work, by putting students at the centre, and making them the focus of their learning we are giving them what they deserve. Thanks Jim I’m certainly right behind you.
Reviewed by The Sparky Teaching Website
"Making Progress is all about making sure the learning-as opposed to the teaching- takes precedence."
"What greater way to show the students respect for learning than by putting them at the centre and making them the focus of the learning?"
Those aren’t just two random quotes plucked out of Jim Smith’s new book. They weren’t chosen for their wit or pithiness and they weren’t chosen to grab your attention.
(If we’d wanted to do that, we’d have chosen this gem:
"You can plan an amazing lesson with loads of progress in less than three minutes..." {quote taken ever so slightly out of context}
Context is everything — read the book, folks!)
No, the reason why we chose those two quotes is that they sum up the ‘Lazy Teacher’ concept in a nutshell. Less
Notă biografică
Jim Smith is the Laziest (But professional) Teacher in Town, Assistant Headteacher , Education Consultant, Best selling author and charismatic speaker.
www.lazyteacher.co.uk
www.independentthinking.co.uk/Who/Associates/Jim+Smith/default.aspx
Ian Gilbert is one of the UK's leading educational innovators, speakers and writers with twenty years experience working with young people and educationalists around the world. He is the founder of Independent Thinking Ltd, the editor of the Independent Thinking Press and the author of a number of titles including Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've Got Google?. His book The Little Book of Thunks won the first education book award from the Society of Authors for 'an outstanding example of traditionally published non-fiction that enhances teaching and learning'.
www.independentthinking.com
www.lazyteacher.co.uk
www.independentthinking.co.uk/Who/Associates/Jim+Smith/default.aspx
Ian Gilbert is one of the UK's leading educational innovators, speakers and writers with twenty years experience working with young people and educationalists around the world. He is the founder of Independent Thinking Ltd, the editor of the Independent Thinking Press and the author of a number of titles including Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've Got Google?. His book The Little Book of Thunks won the first education book award from the Society of Authors for 'an outstanding example of traditionally published non-fiction that enhances teaching and learning'.
www.independentthinking.com
Extras
Excerpt from Whole School Progress the LAZY Way
Foreword:
In his classic 1967 book, The Medium is the Massage, (Yes, ‘massage’, you heard right. It was a misprint, but when McLuhan saw it he deemed it rather apt and chose to keep it) technology-insociety visionary Marshall McLuhan made a number of telling predictions about the nature of our modern world in the light of the technological revolution taking place at that time.
The changes – and remember, McLuhan was writing at a time when computers were THAT big – meant that people were beginning to shift from being passive observers of a simple world to becoming active participants in a complex, interconnected one. Further still, they were even players in the sort of game-changing scenario not seen since the invention of the printing press in which they were, as near as dammit, fusing with the world around them. As he famously wrote, ‘The wheel is an extension of the foot; the book is an extension of the eye; clothing, an extension of the skin; electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system’.
Now, the fact that McLuhan’s later work was entirely bonkers, something that was eventually found out to be the result of a brain tumour, should not detract from the fact that his predictions were of enormous significance, and whose value is only just becoming apparent. Way before a world in which Twitter, Facebook and other social media flourish, McLuhan was describing a world in which Twitter, Facebook and other social media could flourish. For education, his prophecy was of a significant battle between the old model and the new, a shift from teaching as direct instruction towards ‘discovery – to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of forms’.
In a nutshell, a move from ‘package to discovery’.
In this brave new educational world, McLuhan envisaged a classroom in which the learners were significantly more active in the pursuit of their own knowledge than ever before, thanks in no small way to the freedom the new technologies gave them. ‘As the audience becomes a participant in the total electric drama,
the classroom can become a scene in which the audience performs an enormous amount of work.’
However, McLuhan’s prophecies overlooked the fact that the biggest obstacle to this exciting world of whole-scale independent learning wasn’t the technology. It was the teachers. But then again, he also failed to predict Angry Birds and Celebrity Big Brother.
Nor did he take into account Jim Smith and teaching done the Lazy Way.
Lazy Teaching is not about the use of technology to do away with the
twenty-first century teacher. It’s not about sitting students in front of rows of computer screens day after day. It’s not even actually about being lazy. And it’s certainly not a rejection of professionalism in the teaching workforce. Quite the opposite. Lazy Teaching came about through our observations in the classroom that if the teacher just got out of the way of the learning a little
more often, everyone would benefit. And benefit significantly. After all, sometimes the best thing we can do to help young people learn is to stop teaching them. How can you expect anyone to learn anything for themselves when there’s all that teaching going on?
Jim’s first book, The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook, was a tremendous success, not without its controversies of course, but it has become the bible for all those teachers who felt that ‘working harder’ wasn’t the answer, despite the best exhortations of governments, inspectors and the management team. If you’re banging your head against a brick wall, doing it harder is rarely the answer. By stepping back from all that teaching and letting children do so much more than they were doing before, you create a scenario in which everyone wins. In the words of one grateful acolyte writing to Jim recently:
"I made the decision a couple of years ago to stop working harder than my students as I was feeling constantly disappointed and let down by them. I was doing so much and getting nothing in return.
I’ve since been feeling guilty as our system of management here is always
blaming us for failing results and trying to get us to do more, monitor more, put on extra classes etc. However, in your book, I’ve found a likeminded individual; you’ve restored my faith in myself and my approach.
My grades are good and getting better and the kids love me!"
Just one satisfied lazy customer amongst so many. What’s more, on top of the pedagogical advantages to the approach, the stressrelieving benefits of the Lazy Way should not be under-estimated either. As one teacher wrote to Jim:
"I’d just like to share a rather strange irony. I read your book in early June
and announced to my boss that I planned to do ‘no teaching’ this coming year and that the learners would do all the work. She found it a bit difficult to swallow. In the middle of June I had a heart attack, and now I’m starting back this term with every intention of keeping my promise. I’ve everything prepared ready to be the really best lazy teacher, along with testimonials from my last cohort who love my lazy teaching methods, many of which of course are your methods."
Let’s make it clear, your job shouldn’t be a matter of that there is so much to be said for the Lazy Way. I am delighted, therefore, to be writing the foreword to Jim’s new book in which he takes Lazy Teaching further, faster and lazier than ever before, applying it not only outside of the classroom and into the day-today to life of the school as a whole but also with a special focus on the inspector’s current buzzword, ‘progress’.
Now, ‘progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long’, as Ogden Nash once said, but learning without progress is rarely learning. I have seen too many lessons where children merely replicate what they have learnt and already know, giving the impression of a very bright class of knowledgeable souls yet who are actually missing out on the opportunity to be stretched further with every minute that ticks inexorably by. A focus on progress, however, says, ‘I commit, as your teacher, to ensure you spend some of this lesson more stupid than you thought you were, and that you leave this classroom cleverer than when you entered it.’
And, when you combine this commitment to seeing your learners actually learning new things each and every lesson with a firm belief in the Lazy Way, then you have the opportunity for some really exciting, engaging, creative and wonderfully enjoyable lessons. With you working less in the process. Then throw in a wholeschool approach to being Lazy that takes into account not just your lessons but also aspects of school life such as staff meetings, leadership and CPD and you have something quite special.
Enjoy, then, this second round of teaching done the Lazy Way from a master in the art of getting ‘them’ to do the work. In doing so you will not only help McLuhan’s prophecies come true but also help yourself, your career and your health. As the teacher who wrote about doing so much and getting nowhere in return concluded in her missive to Jim:
"Thanks so much. I really love my job and don’t feel stressed or harassed one bit. In fact, I love getting up in the morning to go to work."
Lazy teachers who love getting up to go to work? Now there’s a paradox, but as the great physicist Niels Bohr once said:
‘How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.’
Ian Gilbert
May 2012
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“Jim Smith has done it again.”
Mick Waters, Professor of Education, Wolverhampton University
Based on Jim Smith’s learning and leadership work with schools across the country, this book is packed with highly practical solutions and suggestions that are proven to help you improve the quality of learning (and therefore progress!) both in your classroom and across the school. And as it’s all done in the laziest possible way, it will be the pupils working harder, not you!
Following on from the acclaimed The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook, Whole school progress the LAZY way applies Jim Smith’s lazy philosophy to the thorny issue of ‘making progress’. Aimed at improving learning both in the classroom and across the school, this book once again shows how you can use Jim’s renowned ‘lazy way’ to put student’s learning first rather than your teaching or paranoia about progress. And the result? Outstanding progress in your lessons without even a hint of traffic lights, mini-whiteboards or thumbs up! Be it planning for progress, capturing evidence of progress in a lesson or using lesson observation techniques that make progress explicit, the book offers lots of new techniques which have led to ‘outstanding’ judgements during Ofsted inspections. Just ask the author!
What’s more, Jim extends his ideas across the whole school. Drawing on his experience with ‘lazy leadership’ he shows how his philosophy can have a dramatic impact on areas such as lesson observations, performance management and professional development. It’s not about leading the learning. It’s about the learning leading you. And when you let it, your school is never the same again.
“Using the techniques of his first book, Jim offers idea upon idea in a way that is entirely accessible. The ‘lazy’ bit is again the misnomer but the book does show how thinking teachers and school leaders can make their jobs enjoyable and reap the rewards for effort that makes sense.”
Mick Waters, Professor of Education, Wolverhampton University
“Still a practising teacher himself, Jim Smith writes with authority and also with respect for both the young people he teaches and the colleagues with whom he works. Underpinned by a clearly articulated paradigm and written in a refreshing, engaging and accessible style punctuated with examples drawn from his own work and from his extensive experience of working with a range of schools, this book speaks to anyone who is (or will be) part of a busy staffroom and who seeks more than a set of tips for teachers.”
Jayne Prior, Senior Teaching Fellow in Education and Director of Educational and Professional Studies (PGCE), University of Bristol
“A thoroughly enjoyable, suitably humorous and endlessly useful read. It makes for a natural step from the The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook and takes the concept of Lazy Teaching out of the classroom and into the whole school.”
Geoff Cherrill, Vice Principal, Nova Hreod, Swindon
“A welcome sequel to Jim Smith’s first book, and again jam-packed with ideas for invisibly transferring the learning load onto students - this time with an emphasis on whole-school processes. Readable, amusing and quirky, I expect this to do as well as its predecessor.”
Barry J Hymer, Professor of Psychology in Education, University of Cumbria
Jim Smith, the laziest (yet still professional) teacher in town, is an assistant headteacher, education consultant, Independent Thinking Associate, speaker and best-selling author.
Mick Waters, Professor of Education, Wolverhampton University
Based on Jim Smith’s learning and leadership work with schools across the country, this book is packed with highly practical solutions and suggestions that are proven to help you improve the quality of learning (and therefore progress!) both in your classroom and across the school. And as it’s all done in the laziest possible way, it will be the pupils working harder, not you!
Following on from the acclaimed The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook, Whole school progress the LAZY way applies Jim Smith’s lazy philosophy to the thorny issue of ‘making progress’. Aimed at improving learning both in the classroom and across the school, this book once again shows how you can use Jim’s renowned ‘lazy way’ to put student’s learning first rather than your teaching or paranoia about progress. And the result? Outstanding progress in your lessons without even a hint of traffic lights, mini-whiteboards or thumbs up! Be it planning for progress, capturing evidence of progress in a lesson or using lesson observation techniques that make progress explicit, the book offers lots of new techniques which have led to ‘outstanding’ judgements during Ofsted inspections. Just ask the author!
What’s more, Jim extends his ideas across the whole school. Drawing on his experience with ‘lazy leadership’ he shows how his philosophy can have a dramatic impact on areas such as lesson observations, performance management and professional development. It’s not about leading the learning. It’s about the learning leading you. And when you let it, your school is never the same again.
“Using the techniques of his first book, Jim offers idea upon idea in a way that is entirely accessible. The ‘lazy’ bit is again the misnomer but the book does show how thinking teachers and school leaders can make their jobs enjoyable and reap the rewards for effort that makes sense.”
Mick Waters, Professor of Education, Wolverhampton University
“Still a practising teacher himself, Jim Smith writes with authority and also with respect for both the young people he teaches and the colleagues with whom he works. Underpinned by a clearly articulated paradigm and written in a refreshing, engaging and accessible style punctuated with examples drawn from his own work and from his extensive experience of working with a range of schools, this book speaks to anyone who is (or will be) part of a busy staffroom and who seeks more than a set of tips for teachers.”
Jayne Prior, Senior Teaching Fellow in Education and Director of Educational and Professional Studies (PGCE), University of Bristol
“A thoroughly enjoyable, suitably humorous and endlessly useful read. It makes for a natural step from the The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook and takes the concept of Lazy Teaching out of the classroom and into the whole school.”
Geoff Cherrill, Vice Principal, Nova Hreod, Swindon
“A welcome sequel to Jim Smith’s first book, and again jam-packed with ideas for invisibly transferring the learning load onto students - this time with an emphasis on whole-school processes. Readable, amusing and quirky, I expect this to do as well as its predecessor.”
Barry J Hymer, Professor of Psychology in Education, University of Cumbria
Jim Smith, the laziest (yet still professional) teacher in town, is an assistant headteacher, education consultant, Independent Thinking Associate, speaker and best-selling author.
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How learners go further faster when you put them in the driving seat.