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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
Several years ago I compiled a 'starter' list of books that I had read to children and we had enjoyed together. This year, conscious that many exciting childrens' books have been published recently,...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most children are right-handed and as a result most teachers have developed teaching methods that are aimed specifically at right-handers rather than lefthanders. Most teachers feel uncomfortable...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How can education help to break down unnecessary sex-stereotyping of school subjects? The issue was much discussed in the 70s. The 'Catch 22' situation in the diagram was common and it was realised...
| Year published: 1983 | 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
Theories of how we learn to read are important springs for research and as research data piles up their strengths and weaknesses are being revealed. Meanwhile, back in the classroom, trial and error...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Are kids in secondary schools misbehaving more frequently? Do they have less respect for teachers? Do they have less respect for authority? Is what teachers do contributing to the problem? How would...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers cannot continue to be efficient in the classroom unless parents -and society -take a much firmer hand in training children in morals, ethics and good manners.
| Year published: 1975 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Several of the research reports summarized below have been published by the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales (NFER). This research organization, which was set...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article