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New Perspectives: courses, programmes, support, and consultancy for primary school heads and teachers.

'New Perspectives...' is a small, independent educational consultancy established in 2003 by Dr Tony Eaude. Drawing on his experience as a headteacher, researcher and consultant, he provides an innovative, personal approach to offer teachers and headteachers in primary schools new ways of approaching school improvement. This is based on three core principles, that:

• the capacity for improvement resides within schools, and the role of outsiders is primarily to empower and support;
• school improvement is intimately linked with the values and beliefs espoused by the school community;
• success depends on building, and building on, the learning ability of children and the professional expertise of teachers and other staff.

The emphasis is to offer support to schools in:

• identifying, and addressing, the elusive but important elements of education too often overlooked in the drive for improved test scores;
• trusting and encouraging teachers, and others, to innovate, to adapt and to be reflective and self-evaluative; and
• creating and sustaining, among and between staff and pupils, learning, caring communities.

Dr Tony Eaude is available for training and consultancy. His most recent talk was to the National Primary Teacher Education Conference. This was called 'What really matters? – looking beyond the standards agenda'. The text can be downloaded at naptec (doc, 62K)

He has recently run a one-day course for the National Union of Teachers called 'Enhancing the Achievement of Young Bilingual Learners'. Further courses are planned for London (February 13th), Cardiff (March 3rd), Durham (April 22nd) and Manchester (April 28th). For further details contact Tony Eaude or the NUT website www.teachers.org.uk

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