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Advisory Teacher The: Rita Headington is widely known for her publication aimed ing classroom assistants to understand early mathematics, Su Numeracy (David Fulton, 1990). She worked as a primary teacher and in an advisory teacher the capacity before joining the Education team, as a Senior Lecturer in Primary Educa Canterbury Christ Church University College. Rita's keen in! the relationship between home and school has been mai through her work in mathematics and assessment.
After a few days the teacher noted that Eleanor was fairly comfortable in school and was happy to talk about the games she was playing. The teacher noted: 'Eleanor enthusiastically told me the names she had given to all the plastic play people/
After about a week Eleanor began to greet the teacher when they met in the morning and she usually had some news to report. The teacher felt that this was a good sign that Eleanor was settling in well.
PACT grew out of the work of the Pitfield Project, a venture set up in 1979 and financed by the Inner London Education Authority and the Inner-Cities Partnership Fund. An educational psychologist and an advisory teacher the teacher (the writers) were appointed to try to help teachers in a small group of schools in a 'disadvantaged' area in their work with children experiencing learning difficulties. In our search for ways to promote th worJc we stumbled, through a fortunate and almost chanc encounter, on a way of helping not only children with learning difficulties, but all children. |
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