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Video-taping and interviews revealed a big gap between what is said to be taught and what is actually taught. The children are aware of the ‘hidden curriculum’, and that is no bad thing.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Some children find listening and comprehending very difficult - all sorts of things get in the road. Susan Gray got students to tell her what those blocks are. Then she shows how they...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
15 assumptions get in the way of good education. For example, teachers must punish but teachers must not punish. This item will make you think again.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
St. Patrick's College, Campbelltown, NSW, teaches mathematics to the senior classes by bringing all the pupils together for lectures, followed by class-sized tutorials, not all compulsory....
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teaching children who are not of our own culture or socioeconomic background can be difficult and frustrating. Two researchers working in classrooms have come up with new ways at looking at...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article describes a project which we hope gives some clear pointers to all teachers, and infant teachers in particular, about how
1. to gain and sustain the attention of pupils;
2. to pre-empt...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This investigation - in 75 maths classes, for 10-year olds, up to 10 visits in each - came to the puzzling conclusion that no matter how much the pupils were encouraged to contribute, or discouraged...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Currently in secondary schools a special time allowance of 'up to five weekly teaching half days beyond regulation staffing' is available 'to permit schools to employ part time teachers when...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Open plan education began in New Zealand primary schools about 1970 when keen groups of teachers who wished to work in teams helped get conventional classroom blocks modified. Also the new minimum...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A flowchart can describe what happens when we set out to copy a sentence; the factors and skills which operate during this task. The model is not about 'meaning' or 'word choice' or 'self-expression...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article