• Age: 12
• Grade: k

A student’s learning life has many “transitions”: from home to school, from grade level to grade level, from one stage to the next. None of these has more impact on learning and school achievement than the transition from elementary school to secondary school. In Successful Student Transition, Ruth Sutton helps us find a way through these complexities. First, she asks some important questions about professional practices in North American schools. Then, drawing on research studies from around the world, and from her own work in the UK and New Zealand, Sutton offers practical suggestions for making student transition successful.

Ruth Sutton was a secondary teacher and deputy principal of an inner-city school in Manchester, England. She also taught on exchange in a senior high school in Ohio, United States. After five years as a school district assessment consultant, Ruth spent two years as senior adviser (assistant superintendent) for secondary education. She then became an independent consultant, specializing in assessment for learning and school improvement. Most of her current work is in Scotland and Wales, and in various provinces of Canada.

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