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Riding the Reciprocal Teaching Bus. A Teacher's Reflections on Nurturing Collaborative Learning in a School Culture Obsessed by Results
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Gilbert, Francis – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
This article examines the author's interactions with the teaching strategy known as Reciprocal Teaching, sometimes also called Reciprocal Reading, which involves students learning to read collaboratively in small groups. Reciprocal Teaching typically involves students teaching each other by following a rubric of activities that are aimed at…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reciprocal Teaching, Reading Instruction, Cooperative Learning
Progress of Pupils Attending Resourced Provision for Specific Learning Difficulties
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Warhurst, Amy; Norgate, Roger – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2012
An analysis of the improvement in attainments of 109 students attending specialist-resourced provision for specific learning difficulties (SpLD) attached to mainstream secondary schools was conducted as they progressed through Key Stages 3 and 4. Steady progress was made in terms of reading accuracy, reading comprehension, spelling ability and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Learning Problems, Spelling
Cyberbullying: Through the Eyes of Children and Young People
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Ackers, Melanie Jane – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2012
The topic of cyberbullying is raising international debate and concern. Through the development and dissemination of a questionnaire 12 student researchers were supported in surveying 325 UK students across Years 7, 8 and 9 to gain further knowledge of this area, in relation to children and young people. Results were analysed and comparisons made…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents
A Case Study in School Improvement
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Titcombe, Roger – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
In October 2010 Perry Beeches school, an 11-16 Local Authority controlled community comprehensive in Birmingham, was widely featured in the national media as the "most improved school in the UK"--Ever. Some of the ways in which this was achieved are explored. Whether the changes undergone by this school reflect a pattern that has become…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
"Does RE Work?" An Analysis of the Aims, Practices and Models of Effectiveness of Religious Education in the UK
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Lundie, David – British Journal of Religious Education, 2010
Possibly the largest qualitative study in RE policy and practice in many years, the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society project "Does RE work? An analysis of the aims, practices and models of effectiveness in religious education in the UK", headed by the University of Glasgow, seeks to map the complex processes of curriculum formation as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Qualitative Research, Ethnography
The Development and Evaluation of a Writing Frames Booklet and a Language Cues Booklet for Science Investigations in Year 9.
Cosgrove Jonathan; Packham, Dave – MCT, 2002
Examined the use of "Writing Frames" to enhance ninth grade students' science investigations. Students were taught to use "Writing Frames" booklets and language cues booklets for "writing up" their science projects. Surveys of participants and nonparticipants indicated that participants had increased scores on various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Science Education, Scientific Research
An Investigative Assessment of the Need for Individual Learning Support for a Y9 Pupil with Learning Difficulties and ADHD.
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Pester, James – Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 2002
A year nine pupil with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in a residential school was not accessing the curriculum due to distractibility and aggressive behavior. Analysis of data gathered through individual interviews, analysis of daily staff reports, and structured behavioral observation, indicate the student functions more successfully…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attention Deficit Disorders, Educational Strategies, Evaluation Methods