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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
The task of teaching a severely handicapped child mainstreamed into an ordinary secondary school is far from easy. Very little help can be found in the research literature. The bulk of this is geared...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
It is generally the case that teachers, instructing young children to read single words, present these sight-words in the company of pictures representing the same objects. For example, when teaching...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article is based on a paper given at a special seminar on multicultural teaching at Auckland Teachers' College in 1984. The paper gave rise to several strong responses, one of which could be...
| Year published: 1985 | 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
In this article the authors describe 5 barriers to learning faced by apprentices. They then outline a number of practical ideas that teachers and tutors can use to overcome these barriers.
| 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
Most teachers use television incidentally in their lessons, if only to reinforce or illustrate some point. Many will have noticed a reluctance, almost an hostility, by the children towards discussing...
| 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