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Managing School Attendance

Successful intervention strategies for reducing truancy

By Ken Reid

To Be Published July 18th 2013 by Routledge – 248 pages

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Description

As an internationally recognised expert on this topic, Professor Ken Reid offers workable, practical solutions to help schools improve attendance and to reduce non-attendance and truancy at government level, school and local authority level, individual pupil level and at the family level. Underpinned by the very latest research, but expanded upon with an accessible, practitioner focus, the issues covered by this topical text include:

  • the causes of non-attendance and truancy
  • successful interventions and the evidence from research
  • reflections on the attempts to find national solutions
  • implementing home-school solutions
  • an agenda for the future

Supported throughout with case-studies and workable solutions to the most demanding of situations, this book will be essential reading for head teachers, deputy head teachers, teachers and any educational professional eager to raise standards for all.

Contents

Part 1: The causes of school absenteeism and truancy 1. Introduction: An overview of school absenteeism and truancy 2. The causes of school absenteeism and truancy: home and social backgrounds 3. Psychological traits 4. The educational causes of truancy 5. Summary of recent changes Part 2: Managing school absenteeism and truancy 6. Fundamental and necessary changes 7. National and local policies 8. Managing attendance: basic strategies at the school level Part 3: Successful intervention strategies 9. Case studies 1: Managing attendance: some good practice at a primary school 10. Case studies 2: A successful long-term intevention at the school level 11. Case studies 3: More interventions in challenging circumstances 12. Case studies 4: A successful long term intervention at the LA level 13. Case studies 5: More successful interventions at an LA level 14. Case studies 6: some successful interventions with pupils and their families 15. Some reflections

Author Bio

Professor Ken Reid is currently the Advisor to the Welsh Government on school behaviour and attendance. He has most recently published Better Behaviour Through Home-School Relations (2013) with Nicola S Morgan and Gill Ellis and Tackling Behaviour in Your Primary School (2012) with Nicola S Morgan. He was awarded an OBE for his Services to Education by the Queen in 2010 for his work.

Name: Managing School Attendance: Successful intervention strategies for reducing truancy (Paperback) – Routledge 
Description: By Ken Reid. As an internationally recognised expert on this topic, Professor Ken Reid offers workable, practical solutions to help schools improve attendance and to reduce non-attendance and truancy at government level, school and local authority level, individual...
Categories: School Leadership, Management & Administration, Secondary Education, Primary/Elementary Education