Here is an increasingly wide agreement among teachers, researchers, inspectors, advisers and policy-makers that both teaching and research will benefit from being brought closer together. But how can this be achieved? Hard-pressed practitioners cannot be expected to review a constant flow of conference papers, journals and other publications, even if such items were accessible and clearly understood. This unique book synthesizes relevant research findings for the professional practitioner and highlights their implications for the quality of teaching and learning.
Whether you are a...
Here is an increasingly wide agreement among teachers, researchers, inspectors, advisers and policy-makers that both teaching and research will ben...
Work experience schemes were becoming an ever more central part of the curriculum in secondary schools in the early 1980s; indeed, `work' had become a new subject in many. Fundamental changes in the nature of work and in its distribution and availability for school leavers made it particularly important that young people had experience of the kinds of work that may have awaited them in the outside world. A wide range of schemes were developed to meet this need, including work study, simulation, link courses and pairing. Yet schools and their teachers found it difficult to obtain information...
Work experience schemes were becoming an ever more central part of the curriculum in secondary schools in the early 1980s; indeed, `work' had become a...
Making decisions is one of the main activities of the teacher's work. Considered or apparently unconsidered, these decisions significantly affect the lives of all who work in classrooms, both children and the teachers themselves. Originally published in 1979, the aim of this collection of papers was to achieve greater understanding of classroom decision-making and its consequences, to identify and map existing knowledge, and to indicate where it might be augmented. The contributors were researchers and teachers from schools, universities and colleges at the time, and they examine the...
Making decisions is one of the main activities of the teacher's work. Considered or apparently unconsidered, these decisions significantly affect the ...
