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The purpose of the questionnaire is to highlight those areas of study skills in which pupils lack confidence. Most pupils will know which aspects of their work could be improved.
As students move through the key stages, pressure on their time…

Preparing those who work with our youngest and most receptive learners to be competent practitioners and reflective professionals is the most important
challenge in Education. These young minds and tiny hands deserve the best that a…

I T HAS BECOME a cliché to say that education is in “crisis.” But it is true: A deep sense of crisis pervades discussions of education in the United States. Perhaps most distressingly, the crisis appears to be chronic. Reports in the mass media,…

Perhaps our biggest failure with student teachers is in not preparing them adequately for the emotional pressures on them and for the way their own emotional responses will help determine their reactions and behaviour in the classroom. However much I…

. Cognitive automation and its systemergonomic introduction into work systems have been advanced in the meantime to
such a degree that already applications for operational work systems are slowly
becoming reality. This interdisciplinary book is…

Think back to your first days as a teacher. What kind of support did you receive from your district? If you have taught for fewer than ten years, you may have been assigned a building mentor or you were required to attend “skills sessions” that…

In an ef fort to make stu dents aware of the world in which they live, an em pha sis has re cently been placed on global ed u ca tion. Ed u ca tors have seen the need for a deeper un der stand ing of the in ter de pen dence of peo ples and na tions…

Someone once said that curriculum development is not something done to teachers but through and with them. This has the implication that teachers should have appropriate skills and knowledge to be able to make a contribution to curriculum…

Students’ approaches to the nature of knowledge (known as intellectual development, epistemological development, or cognitive development) have significant impacts on their approach to learning and on their ability to learn throughout and beyond…

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equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults. Drawing
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