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Leadership coaching with a professional partner assists leaders to be reflective in action, on action and for future action, resulting in knowledgeable practice.
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
We know that children learn better when they are supported during new learning by someone who is more expert than they are. At a multi-cultural school in one of the five most “at risk” areas in...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This summary of an extensive literature review highlights the different ways in which peers influence learning, and describes classroom approaches that maximise these peer effects. Learning is...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The authors look at the differences between the primary, intermediate/middle and secondary “islands” in the educational “sea”, the structural reasons for their separateness, the impact of this on...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Today's educational leaders are faced with the task of solving complex problems. The author suggests that if principals understand how they have learnt educational management, what they have learnt,...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most children have trouble understanding decimals - they confuse them with whole numbers or with fractions. Here are some concrete suggestions for how children can use their everyday knowledge to...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The introduction of information skills into the New Zealand Curriculum has signalled a change in direction for education from teacher-centred learning to student-centred learning. However, before...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is growing pressure for all teachers to become teachers of values. Here are some ways in which mathematics teachers can incorporate values education into their existing mathematics programme...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Mathematics is more than numbers and measurement. It is a way of thinking which allows concepts to be built up; problems to be explored and solved; conjectures to be made and examined; and complex...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There are differences between schools in terms of location, size, growth rates, and characteristics of their student populations. Are any of these characteristics related to the learning and teaching...
| Year published: 1998 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article