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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
Starting the year on the 'right foot' is the key to effective classroom discipline. Obviously, of course, naturally - now tell us something new. Well, what's new is that a school can indeed design an...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A man once owned a dog which was inclined to jump over the back fence and enjoy the delights of the neighbourhood. Deciding that he needed a new fence around his yard, the man was confronted with the...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Spelling research is making good progress. Two of the areas it is finding very fruitful are:
1 an examination of the words children write - and subsequently misspell;
2 investigation of how we...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
| Year published: 1975 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The books used to teach children to read in New Zealand schools present a narrowed view of reality which may be harmful to girls. This is the general finding of an inquiry completed earlier this year...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article draws on a study of three New Zealand primary co-principalships to discuss some alternatives for re-ordering school organisational structures and power relationships. Some...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Streaming (or ability grouping or tracking, as the Americans would have it) has been tried, thrown out, revived, recommended, debunked and debated periodically in recent decades. Writing for New...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Issues of grouping and streaming are still hotly debated by teachers and administrators. Many are moved to turn to the research workers, and ask the simple question - Should we stream our children...
| Year published: 1984 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
'Who are you?' said the caterpillar. Alice replied rather shyly, 'I -- 1 hardly know, sir, just at present -- at least 1 know who 1 was when 1 got up this morning, but 1 must have changed several...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article