Tag: research

  • Principals’ Effect on Learning, Post

    Principals’ Effect on Learning, Post

    Research tells us that school principals can make the same level of improvement in results on every student in a school as a high quality teacher does on the students he or she teaches.

  • Homework – Relevant and Short, Post

    Homework – Relevant and Short, Post

    Excessive homework is often at the insistence of parents. But his is about taking control. It is about applying good homework tasks that are based on sound research findings. 

  • Autism Level 1, Post

    Autism Level 1, Post

    Autism Level 1 In Autism Level 1, known as Aspergers Syndrome in the past, is the focus. How a diagnosis is made: DSM or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and the ICD, The International Classification of Diseases are the two most influential and widely used handbooks when diagnosing Asperger’s syndrome in English-speaking countries.…

  • Teaching the Dyslexic Child, Post

    Teaching the Dyslexic Child, Post

    Teaching the Dyslexic Child Dyslexia and dysgraphia have been discussed extensively. And teaching the dyslexic child presents special challenges. Research is ongoing and progress is being made. However, Dr Jon Lieff warns that there is still much we don’t know and advises caution in response to new findings (http://www.searchijonlieffmd.com/…/can-neuroscience-improve-education). Much that has been written about…

  • Whole Language Theory, Post

    Whole Language Theory, Post

    Whole Language Theory Whole Language Theory dominated literacy teaching. In the 1960’s the movement towards the whole language approach to teaching literacy in schools gathered strength. There is a legacy of WLT in schools in Australia. Easy to pick! Children are taught to learn words only within the context of a story or other text;…

  • Handwriting – An Intellectual Activity, Post

    Handwriting – An Intellectual Activity, Post

    Handwriting – An Intellectual Activity Why Handwriting is important.  More areas of our brain are used to hand-print than to type on a keyboard. And more areas of the brain are used to write in script than to hand-print. There have always been children with poor handwriting but the quality of teaching over the last…