Creating an
Accelerated
Learning School


by
Mark Lovatt and Derek Wise


pb £17.95
hb £28.95

176pg
2001

This book describes how an ordinary high school set about incorporating accelerated learning into its teaching practices and policies. Headteacher Derek Wise provides a macro view of the process, discussing the changes made across the whole school. Head of Science, Mark Lovatt, provides a micro view, looking at ways to use accelerated learning in the classroom.

Their experiences provide useful reading for any school wishing to improve the learning quality of its students. Several case studies are included to show how accelerated learning techniques can be applied to different subjects.

Back cover

Cramlington Community High School has been officially described as 'an exciting place to learn'. The story of its pioneering work with accelerated learning is told in Creating An Accelerated Learning School.

If you have been intrigued by the possibilities of accelerated learning but have not been sure how to start to implement it; if you have yet to be persuaded that accelerated learning can be robust enough to transform learning in your school; if you want to know what objective evidence there is for the success of the approach, then this book is for you.

In Creating An Accelerated Learning School you will read how one school took the ideas of accelerated learning and made them successful. The co-authors describe in detail the origins of their approach, from the earliest ideas, and take us through what they did to final success. The UK Schools' Inspectorate described the approach as 'bold and innovative'.

Creating An Accelerated Learning School is packed with strategies for whole school, departmental and classroom level improvement. It is thoroughly researched and practically proven. It provides hundreds of ideas and resources. This is the book that moves beyond theory.

Derek Wise is Headteacher of Cramlington Community High School in Northumberland, England. Derek has been a Deputy Headteacher in two inner city schools and has been the Director of an Education Action Zone. He is well respected locally and nationally for his energy and interest in learning innovation and for his championing of comprehensive education.

Mark Lovatt is Head of Science and Learning Co-ordinator at Cramlington Community High School in Northumberland, England. He has spent considerable time and energy researching, adapting and applying the ideas of accelerated learning to his subject. Mark¹s energy and enthusiasm is evident from the plaudits his training events receive.