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There is bad power and good power, power that you resent and power you respect. The power a teacher can wield is examined and ways to create power that flows from admiration and regard are explained...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
When we asked which topic subscribers would most like to see research about, appraisal topped the list. This article looks at (a) appraisal for firing - helps administrators only, and...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In the South Pacific new approaches to the teaching of English are overdue. Here is one, tried in Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu and Kiribati, using books not specifically designed for 2nd-...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Many of our teaching techniques are based on behaviourist experiments of years ago. But behaviour analysis has moved on and discovered that most of what we do is governed by rules we...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article reviews a large body of research on different policy approaches to the curriculum and organisation of actual multi-cultural schools. Bi-Iingual and Second-language teaching...
| 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
A skilled detector of the art of putting things off reveals the techniques of 14-year-old Wayne and his partners, and shows how the clever teacher gets them working.
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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
Teachers have trouble convincing cynics that despite school finishing at 3.30 they are busy people. When syllabus and assessment changes are added, the load can be even worse. Diaries...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The way beginning teachers find jobs, or are directed into them, are very different, country to country, state to state. Here a brand new system, at the 'market-forces' end of the...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article