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What makes a really good teacher? Two case studies from the same high school show how different in style, presentation, personality, preparation and background, good teachers can be.
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
These days it is common to hear teachers speak about their concern over a lack of discipline shown by many students. Whether the issue of concern is disruptive behaviour, the defiance of authority,...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Despite the fact that resources to help slow achievers in classrooms are usually less than adequate, we tend to overlook
one of the most powerful sources of children's learning at school - other...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
During the 1960s there was a dramatic increase in the amount of both experimental and theoretical work devoted to the topic of short-term memory. The field had become enormously complicated, so in an...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers coordinate and supervise the work of a team of people. In this respect they are like managers in business and
industry and must have similar skills. In school, as in industry, work has to...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This paper condenses our conclusions from an extensive review of published evidence concerning teaching strategies used with children with learning difficulties. The review was carried out in 1999–...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
One of the key elements in reciprocal teaching is getting the children to 'be the teacher' for a while. This research found great gains in reading for the children who tried the...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
For years I've had vague feelings of disquiet about my teaching of science and I couldn't work out what was worrying me. I read up the Units beforehand to see the scientific facts the children needed...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Children learn a great deal from other children. The power of this learning from peers is easily seen. Children learn such things as playground games, the language of their friends, and social...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Californian experience and research bears on the problems of teaching children with diverse languages and diverse cultural attitudes to education. Solutions appear, and are relevant to...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article