In 1975 and again in 1977, Anne Bray and Bruce McMillan carried out a family survey as a class exercise in Stage I Education at Otago University. Students were asked to provide descriptive data...
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For the past five years or more, there has been a growing amount of publicity generated about the use of the microcomputer - the so-called 'personal' computer - in the classrooms of America....
The playcentre movement began in 1941, during the Second World War when many fathers were absent in the forces. It was founded to provide support for families by setting up preschool centres,...
In 1979 I arranged with Robin Haberfield who was teaching a class of 8 and 9 year olds to have three observers watch three of his pupils continuously for about an hour and a quarter every day for...
In the United Kingdom, classroom seating with desks or tables arranged in rows is the norm in secondary schools. This was also the case in most primary schools until the sixties when a less formal...
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 widespread adoption of open-space education in the past decade resulted in considerable controversy about the effects of the acoustic environments of schools. While proponents of open...
Even in the very first year at school a few pupils are disruptive. They are called 'disruptive', 'immature', 'aggressive', 'lacking in concentration' and 'hyperactive' and in moments of stress a...
Teachers who understand that spelling is a complex developmental process can help students acquire spelling competency. Initially, the teacher must recognize five stages of spelling development....
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Set1983_2_010.pdf Writing and going to school are intimately linked in the minds of many people. The second 'R; even more than reading, is regarded as a particularly school-like activity, and images of pupils...
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...
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...
If we distinguish what it is that good readers learn to do that poor readers do not learn we are half way to knowing what to
do to cure a lot of problems, for 'Failure in reading, virtually...
What is work experience for? The main goal may be to make students more employable, or it may be to teach students about the community in which they live. It may be to help students to become more...
Most claims of bias in a test concern its content. Each of the three illustrations contains elements of content bias, which is the type of test bias that comes readily to mind for most people. A...