Archived Articles on Learning & Teaching

These articles are about learning and teaching.

• Information for Early Childhood Educators - comprehensive range of information on speech and language development  - early childhood.
• How I Handled … Raising Achievement of Students Who Score In the Bottom 25 Percent
• Maths Challenges for Families - the site includes such vexing questions as “Why are manhole covers round?”
• Background Information on Multiple Intelligences - includes checklists for parents to assess their child in line with multiple intelligences theory.
• Academic & Social Emotional Learning - booklet is about the social emotional skills students need for success in school and life.
• Early Childhood Education - effectiveness ratings for Early Childhood Education programs in six domains.
• Research Building Blocks: “Cite Those Sources!” - teaching research skills can help students find answers for themselves.
• Do the Math: Cognitive demand makes a difference - how to raise Math outcomes for all students.
• Tell Students to Feed Their Brains - this is a report on recent research on how children can be taught to "feed their own brains" through understanding that their brains and intelligence can be grown.
• The Learning Compact Redefined - a report of the commission of the whole child.
• A Collegial Conversation - talking about instruction helps teachers find new ways to engage students.
• Leadership Trait Development: A New Approach in Assessing Students’ Leadership Potential - a five-factor model that is a classification system of personality traits organized in five broad dimensions.
• Music Education - a large number of resources for Music education.
• Students’ Motivation for Standardized Math Exams - the authors consider individual differences in processes that prior research has found to be important in achievement.
• Assessment is for Learning - resources and up-to-date information about assessment for learning.
• Association for Citizenship Teaching - Knowledge, Skills & Resources for Citizenship Education .
• Citizenship Education - topics: what is citizenship, sharing practise,planning tools, creative teaching ideas. from Scotland.
• Information About Personality Types - "Personality typing is a tool with many uses."
• Get Your Child Excited About Math - use these tips to help get your child excited about math.
• The Learning How to Learn Program - Warrnambool East Primary School - documents can be downloaded from the website.
• Overview of the Seven Perceptual Styles are the means by which learners extract information from their surroundings through the use of their five senses.
• Improving pupil group work in classrooms - a new approach to increasing engagement and learning in everyday classroom settings.
• Portfolio assessment guide - "One form of authentic assessment being widely adapted in schools today is portfolio assessment."
• Don’t just do something sit there - Helping others to become more conceptual, creative and creative.
• Effects of class sizes on student outcomes - Report on Tennessee's Project STAR (Students-Teacher Achievement Ratio), designed to determine the short- and long-term effects of small class size in grades K-3 on student performance.
• Learning how to learn - in classrooms, schools and networks - "Research on assessment for learning has demonstrated that it can lead to improved learning and achievement."
• Disseminating good practice and celebrating achievement in Wiltshire - The report, in the form of a newsletter to their schools in the UK.
• A Curriculum for Excellence: Building the Curriculum - Learning and Teaching Scotland - new area of the "A Curriculum for Excellence" website.
• Problem Solving - the development of successful Mathematics programs from a variety of schools in Scotland.