Books by Diane Montgomery

Describes how to set up and engage in classroom observation, how to use focused appraisal sessions and deliver the feedback interview, provides practical, positive guidance by a tried and tested theory of improving teaching and learning for school development.

Designed for teachers wanting to know what to do to help pupils with spelling difficulties, this book combines practical advice with theory, research and accounts of the author's own experience. The author looks at how spelling skills develop in both young children and older pupils.

This practical text on positive teacher appraisal describes how to set up and engage in classroom observation, using professional sampling frames. It illustrates how to use focused appraisal sessions and how to deliver the feedback interview.

This text aims to help teachers adapt their teaching strategies so that they can offer a cognitively challenging curriculum. It also examines the nature of lower attainment in its various forms: in the highly able, the slower learner, the dyslexic, and the disaffected.

Based on international research and practice, this practical text enables the reader to identify highly able pupils with special needs, such as ADHD, dyspraxia, dyslexia and Downs Syndrome, and then make provision for them within the mainstream school.