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Chapter 1 – Ideas that shape thinking about teaching and learning
Chapter 2 – Culture and education
Chapter 5 – Cognitive tools in the classroom
Chapter 6 – Memory processes: Making it stick
Chapter 7 – Non-cognitive factors in school success
Chapter 8 – Experts and novices
Chapter 9 – Teaching unplugged: Talk for learning
Chapter 10 – Assessment and feedback: Teaching’s engine room
Chapter 1 – Ideas that shape thinking about teaching and learning
- Kieran Egan has written a great deal on the ideas that shape our thinking about education. Many of his papers can be accessed from his website: sfu.ca/~egan/
Chapter 2 – Culture and education
- For an example of the kind of phoney options that are often disguised as ‘choices’ given to children (that is, where the adult has already decided that there is a ‘right’ and a ‘wrong’ choice), see the following ‘teacher resource’ video clip:
youtube.com/watch?v=CB1VFY3B9Zo - For explorations of many of the politically charged debates about education, you can’t go past Diane Ravitch’s blog: dianeravitch.net
- Alfie Kohn’s homepage is also an interesting one to follow: alfiekohn.org
- If you are interested to find out more about learning in traditional communities, visit the following website. It presents theory and research on the cultural tradition for learning which has come to be known as ‘Intent Community Participation’:
www.intentcommunityparticipation.net
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The following are some of the web resources you can use to find out more about the theories described in this chapter, and the research conducted into them.
- The Boundless open textbook on Psychology:
www.boundless.com/psychology/intelligence/types-of-intelligence/general-intelligence-and-theories-of-intelligence - The Human Intelligence website: www.intelltheory.com
- The on-line Encyclopedia of Psychology: www.psychology.org
- The Boundless open textbook on Psychology:
- Also, you can calculate your ‘Chitling IQ’ at: www.wilderdom.com/personality/intelligenceChitlingTestShort.html
Chapter 5 – Cognitive tools in the classroom
- The BBC’s Brainsmart site has a changing array of useful and interesting resources: www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/brainsmart
- The ABC website is a good place to look for information on memory: www.abc.net.au/science/explore/memory/improveyourmemory.htm
- The mind and brain section of the Scientific American site is also worth looking at: www.scientificamerican.com/mind-and-brain
- New Scientist also provides online resources:
Chapter 6 – Memory processes: Making it stick
- More on memory in learning and teaching, suitable for children in Year 5 and above: www.learningandteaching.info/learning/memory.htm
- Musical mnemonics: www.learningandteaching.info/teaching/exercises_musical_mnemonics.htm
- More on teaching memory strategies to kids: www.psychologytoday.com/blog/radical-teaching/201201/boost-your-children-s-test-success-neuro-logical-strategies
- Beautiful Minds – Memory Masters is a fascinating video series on ‘savants’ and what they have taught scientists about memory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=scANu249LXs&noredirect=1
- ‘Finding the story’ in any school topic can seem daunting, but fortunately help is at hand. Kieran Egan is a founding member of the Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG), and material to get you started and assist you along the way can be found on the IERG website: www.ierg.net
Chapter 7 – Non-cognitive factors in school success
- Carol Dweck’s website: www.mindsetonline.com
- Tom Bennett is a teacher whose blog frequently features critical analyses of the latest educational fads and fashions: community.tes.co.uk/tom_bennett/b/weblog/default.aspx
- If you want to do a bit of myth-busting, try the Skeptic’s Dictionary. The ‘critical thinking’ entry has some great articles on the confirmatory bias and why people believe things that aren’t true: www.skepdic.com
Chapter 8 – Experts and novices
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From the Teaching Channel website (a treasure trove of useful resources), in the ‘New Teacher Survival Guide’ series:
- Lesson planning:
http://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/coaching-planning-lesson-planning - Classroom management:
www.teachingchannel.org/videos/new-teacher-classroom-management
- Lesson planning:
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From the edutopia website:
- Classroom management:
www.edutopia.org/classroom-management-resource-guide
- Classroom management:
- The Education Oasis website also has many resources for beginning teachers: www.educationoasis.com/instruction/beginning_teachers.htm
- So does the Times Education Supplement: newteachers.tes.co.uk
- The ABC’s Splash site offers lesson plans linked to the Australian Curriculum: splash.abc.net.au/home
Chapter 9 – Teaching unplugged: Talk for learning
- Neil Mercer, from Cambridge University, is another researcher in the area of dialogic teaching. His Thinking Together project has produced many useful resources for teachers: thinkingtogether.educ.cam.ac.uk/resources
- From the USA, The Inquiry Project is an online primary science teacher training package. Although these resources are about science teaching, the principles are the same for teaching in any discipline, and can be found at: inquiryproject.terc.edu/prof_dev
- Similar examples relating to literacy teaching can be found on the Teaching Channel website:
Chapter 10 – Assessment and feedback: Teaching’s engine room
- A handy resource, prepared by the South Australian Department of Education and Child Development, that explains ‘effect size’ can be found at: www.decd.sa.gov.au/quality/files/links/WhatIsEffectSize.pdf
- For some good suggestions for pre-assessment ideas, see: kendrik2.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/pre-assessment-strategies/
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For guidance on creating rubrics, the following is by no means a comprehensive set of resources but will help get you started:
- An online tutorial on designing rubrics: www.ucdenver.edu/faculty_staff/faculty/center-for-faculty-development/Documents/Tutorials/Rubrics/1_what_is/index.htm
- University of Minnesota: carla.umn.edu/assessment/vac/CreateUnit/step4_rubrics.html
- Flinders University: www.flinders.edu.au/teaching/teaching-strategies/assessment/grading/designing-rubric.cfm
- General examples: www.naz.edu/research-assessment/documents/assessment/workshop-materials/Sample%20Rubrics.pdf
- For maths: www.exemplars.com/resources/rubrics/math-rubrics
- For essays: www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/printouts/essay-rubric-30230.html
- For science: www.oocities.org/poe-queens/rubrics/teresa/rubrics.htm
- Authentic tasks and rubrics: jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/examples/authentictaskexamples.htm
- Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Design Assessment 1: teaching.uncc.edu/learning-resources/articles-books/best-practice/goals-objectives/writing-objectives
- Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Design Assessment 2: www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/assessment/bloomtaxonomy.asp
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For advice on developing good tests:
- General advice: busyteacher.org/6095-12-teacher-tips-for-writing-good-test-questions.html
- More general advice: suite101.com/a/how-to-write-test-questions-tips-for-creating-good-exams-a284131
- Multiple choice tests: cft.vanderbilt.edu/teaching-guides/assessment/writing-good-multiple-choice-test-questions