Books written by Peter Blatchford
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The Child at School: Interactions with peers and teachers, 2nd Edition
However excessive co-rumination has been found to be prospectively associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression, especially amongst girls (Rose, Carlson & Waller, 2007). It may also be the case, as noted earlier, ...
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Young Children at School in the Inner City
In D. Petrollo & B.M. Bass ( Eds . ) , Leadership and interpersonal behaviour . New York : Holt , Rinehart , & Winston . Brophy , J.E. ( 1979 ) . Teacher behaviour and its effects . ... Clift , P. ( 1981 ) ...
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The Child at School: Interactions with peers and teachers, 2nd Edition
Rogers (1982) used the notion of the tipster and the racehorse to help explain this distinction. The success of the tipster might be measured in terms of the accuracy of their predictions about runners in a race, but we would be ...
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Reassessing the Impact of Teaching Assistants: How research challenges practice and policy
... edn),New York: MacMillan Publishing. Dunkin, M.J. and Biddle, B.J. (1974) The study of teaching, New York:Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Dunne, L., Goddard, G. and Woodhouse, C. (2008) 'Teaching assistants' perceptions of their ...
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Social Life in School: Pupils' experiences of breaktime and recess from 7 to 16
FAULKNER, D. and MIELL, D. (1993) 'Settling into school: The importance of early friendships for the development of children's ... HARTUP, W.W. (1989) 'Behavioral manifestations of children's friendships', in BERNDT, T.J. and LADD, ...
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The Child at School
The specificity of mathematical competence can be fur- ther illustrated by the mismatch at another, more general level, between school mathematical competence and everyday mathematical competence (Lave, 1988); Heath (1989) has made a ...
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Class Size: Eastern and Western perspectives
Hong Kong: Step Forward Multi Media. ... Supporting teachers to optimize the benefits of small class teaching: The experience of teacher educators. ... In J.D. Finn, and M.C. Wang (eds), Taking Small Classes One Step Further (pp.
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Rethinking Class Size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning
'Princesses Are Bigger than Elephants: Effect Size as a Category Error in Evidence-Based Education', British Educational Research ... In Taking Small Classes One Step Further, edited by Jeremy D. Finn and Margaret C. Wang, 19–50.
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Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants: Guidance for school leaders and teachers
The fully updated second edition of this book draws on the experiences of schools that have put this guidance into action via the Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants programme.
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Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants: Guidance for School Leaders and Teachers
Based on the authors’ collaborative work with schools in the Effective Deployment of Teaching Assistants (EDTA) project, this book provides essential, practical tools and classroom-tested strategies that will allow schools to conduct a ...
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Rethinking Class Size: The Complex Story of Impact on Teaching and Learning
They develop a new social pedagogical model of how class size influences work, and identify policy conclusions and implications for teachers and schools. The book is an invaluable contribution to the international debate on class sizes.
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Class Size: Eastern and Western perspectives
This book seeks to move toward a clearer view of what we know and do not know about class size effects, and to identify future steps in terms of policy and research.
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Effective Group Work in Primary School Classrooms: The SPRinG Approach
This book includes contributions from Andrew Tolmie and Ed Baines, who were also involved in the ScotSPRinG and SPRinG projects. This book offers a challenge to traditional approaches to classroom teaching and pedagogy.
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Promoting Effective Group Work in the Primary Classroom: A handbook for teachers and practitioners
'Improving the effectiveness of collaborative group work in primary schools: Effects on science attainment'. ... 'The challenges of implementing group-work in primary school classrooms and including pupils with Special Educational ...
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Promoting Effective Group Work in the Primary Classroom: A handbook for teachers and practitioners
This accessible second edition is packed full of valuable strategies for teachers and fun activities for children, offering guidance on how to create an inclusive and supportive classroom by developing the social, communicative and group ...
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Social Life in School: Pupils' Experience of Breaktime and Recess from 7 to 16 Years
Based on a study of pupils from primary to secondary school, the text argues that breaktime plays an important part in a child's social development and considers what will happen in a society where these skills are not developed.
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EBOOK: THE CLASS SIZE DEBATE
One advantage of our research, in contrast to class size reduction experiments, like the STAR project, is that we did not restrict class sizes, and we can therefore make judgements about the effects of the full range of class sizes ...
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Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants: Guidance for school leaders and teachers
The fully updated second edition of this book draws on the experiences of schools that have put this guidance into action via the Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants programme.
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Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants: Guidance for School Leaders and Teachers
... TA support. In the Reassessing the Impact of Teaching Assistants book we concluded that a fundamental rethink is required in the way TAs are used in order not to let down supported pupils, and the book sets out the case for this ...
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Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants: Guidance for school leaders and teachers
Based on the authors’ collaborative work with schools in the Effective Deployment of Teaching Assistants (EDTA) project, this book provides essential, practical tools and classroom-tested strategies that will allow schools to conduct a ...