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Disruptive behaviour can seriously impede a student's academic progress. Here are some classroom strategies which promote emotional growth and appropriate social skills to help reduce classroom...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
After extensive observation, this experienced educational researcher begins to answer the question "What is it that makes some activities work better in teaching literacy than others?" Reprinted from...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
7/16ths, is it bigger or smaller than 8/17ths?
Fractions are notoriously difficult. Difficult to learn and difficult to teach. I have carried out, with help, some research which throws light on the...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As we write we construct knowledge, we manipulate information, we develop ourselves, and we get, as a bonus, the pleasure of authorship. Our writing develops and we use it for a wide range of...
| Year published: 1989 | 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
The Hikairo Rationale is an approach to behaviour management which encapsulates an amalgam of contemporary theory and traditional Maori discipline. It provides a conceptual framework for...
| Year published: 2000 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The Hidden Lives of Learners takes the reader deep into the hitherto undiscovered world of the learner. It explores the three worlds which together shape a student’s learning – the public world of...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Book | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Books
Among the most serious obstacles to the growth of participatory methods of teaching are columns of desks in classrooms. While pupils are forced to sit looking at the backs of their fellows, with the...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Society accepts violent behaviour and it is modelled in homes, schools and streets. This accepting and modelling is the major cause of violent crime. This is no longer supposition but fact, supported...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This is a review of the work of Peter Freebody in this field. It is a stimulating look at classroom practice, assessment of literacy, and mis-matches of policy and method.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article