Student health and wellbeing
The weather does have an effect on children's (mis)behaviour. Evidence from Britain puts rain, wind and temperature alongside referrals for 'time out' and comes up with a predictive formula.
We can count all the shootings and violence on the TV we let our children watch. But what about the good things they see? More counting reveals interesting facts.
Most high schools 'bend the rules' for some pupils. The obvious results are good: less truancy, less bad behaviour, even more work. But there are bad effects: rules set aside, 'make-work', and poor role models. Research in the USA is very relevant for us.
Very practical advice, arising from research, which takes the chill from this task we all want to face with as much courage as the children.
Two articles, the first on school-based enterprises in Australia and changes research suggests (New Zealand information too): the second a report from Britain called 'Impoverished by the Need to Make Money.'
What are the best ways of preventing and coping with injuries to small children? Parents, trained teachers, and supervisors of early childhood centres were questioned. This research was carried out for the N.Z. Accident Compensation Corporation.
As part of a larger study of the junior school, video recordings were made of new entrants busily adjusting to school learning. Here are fascinating insights into learning, interaction, and classroom climate.
If people approve of us, then we approve of ourselves – our self-esteem grows. From the British equivalent of set we reprint this research on the ability of young children to rank themselves for academic ability. Reprinted from Topic, Spring 1990 (Issue 3), item 1.
Creativity in poetry can be measured, and reliably. But encouraging creative poetry is a subtle business easily upset by asking the wrong questions, making inappropriate demands, setting the wrong atmosphere.
Western Australia is introducing a programme called Managing Student Behaviour, with inservice courses included. Questionnaires revealed levels of moral judgement before and after. Do they matter?
