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When things go wrong with a child's social behaviour, teachers, psychologists and social workers frequently ask for the parents' help. When children are disruptive in class, when children...

These Initial Vocabularies for Reading have been developed by Brian Thompson of the Education Department of Victoria University of Wellington to help teachers in primary schools.

Children are not failures in the normative sense when they arrive at school but the process of labelling a child as a failure begins early in his school career. The early school years a:re...

Learning in maths is complex because it is a process that involves cognition and the affective domain. Indeed, learners experience many emotions during maths, both positive and negative, which...

Maths games are fun and engaging, but what messages do these games send to the students in our classrooms? During mathematics lessons children learn more than just mathematics content; they also come...

In Europe and the UK there is lively debate about when children should start school and what kinds of curriculum and pedagogical approaches are most effective in the early years. Caroline Sharp of...

Six parents of Year 4–6 students at a rural primary school were interviewed to explore their perspectives on the mathematics education of their children.

One of the key elements in reciprocal teaching is getting the children to 'be the teacher' for a while. This research found great gains in reading for the children who tried the...

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. Once...


Asking very young children to draw can reveal a great deal about how they are coping with school, what they are learning and what they regard as important. Better teaching can follow.
