Disruptive behaviour can seriously impede a student's academic progress. Here are some classroom strategies which promote emotional growth and appropriate social skills to help reduce classroom disruption and improve student time on-task.

An evaluation of the child protection programme, Keeping Ourselves Safe, with intermediate school students aged 10–12 years and their parents. Such programmes can teach students strategies for dealing with potentially unsafe situations, but how can schools ensure students will actually use them?

A fascinating insight into how children learn "to do school". This study identifies the ways in which children make use of peer modelling and assistance as they first adjust to the classroom climate, and then contribute to it as new 5-year-olds join the class.

One group of students continues to puzzle educators, parents, and themselves. They are both academically gifted and specifically learning-disabled, yet they are rarely noticed for either their abilities or their disabilities since one often masks the other. They may be the most under-served students in our schools, yet they hold ...

In order to fully engage with children’s thinking, teachers need to develop practices which allow them to engage in in-depth dialogue with individuals or small groups of children, with minimal interruption, for extended periods of time. This paper looks at one model of what can happen when such a structure ...

The passionate determination shown by one-year old children to play outside led this author to analyse the empowerment offered by outdoor experiences.

Joint attention, where an adult and child share attention to some action, object, or topic, is the basis of communication and learning.  Good quality childcare centres help ensure that children do experience these important social interactions.

There are challenges to be faced when blending elements of two curriculum documents. Here are the tactics used by two teachers who use both the national early childhood education curriculum statement (Te Whāriki), and a planning document for the development and use of the Samoan language in education (Ta`iala).

A fascinating insight into how children learn “to do school”. This study identifies the ways in which children make use of peer modelling and assistance as first they adjust to the classroom climate, and then contribute to it as new five-year-olds join the class. Reprinted from set: Research Information for ...