A research team of co-directors, researchers, tutor-researchers and participating teachers reports findings of their two-year SPRINT (Study of Primary Interactive Teaching) project, funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council to investigate primary teachers' understanding and use of interactive teaching in the classroom. Conducted in two locations Leicester and Durham the study explores what "interactive teaching" is in primary classrooms, how teachers and children interact effectively, and possible benefits to both teaching and learning. For academics, researchers, teacher educators, policymakers, and primary school teachers. Distributed by Taylor &amp; Francis. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Interactive Teaching in Primary Classrooms: Digging Deeper into Meanings

Education & Teaching

Hargreaves, Linda

Merry, Roger

Paterson, Fred

Esarte-Sarries, Veronica

Schools & Teaching

Open Univ Pr

In recent years primary education has been the subject of continuing debate with questions of standards and their apparent decline being raised with alarming regularity. Central in informing these debates has been the ORACLE study of groupwork in primary classrooms. Published during the 1980s, the study described in detail the daily life of the primary classroom, the teaching styles used by teachers and the responses of pupils. That research has now been replicated - with over two thirds of the schools originally studied being revisited, using the same tests and observation instruments. This book presents the findings of this second round of research, and is therefore unique in being able authoritatively to document the changes - or lack of them - in primary education and teaching practice over the last twenty years.

Inside the Primary Classroom: 20 Years On

Galton, Maurice

Comber, Chris

Wall, Debbie

Routledge

Transfer from the Primary Classroom

The ORACLE (Observation and Classroom Learning and Evaluation) and its follow-up study address the following questions: Has teaching in the primary school changed over the past twenty years? Has pupil performance improved or declined? Are the links between certain teacher approaches and pupil achievement still the same? Has the National Curriculum had any important consequences for the way in which transfer is conducted? One of the main claims of the National Curriculum is that it has provided greater continuity through the various stages and this should be reflected in smoother transition from one school to the next. This book focuses on the issue of transfer from the primary to the secondary school, using data from the ORACLE project. This study which took place from 1975 to 1980, followed by 'Son of ORACLE', the study of group-work in the primary classroom 1980 to 1983, has had an enormous influence on the debate on primary education. The studies described in detail what took place in primary classrooms, the teaching styles used by teachers and the responses made by pupils. It linked these processes to pupil performance. Finally, it followed the pupils as they transferred out of the primary school into the secondary phase of education. At present a new research project is being carried out in Leicester. It involves studying primary schools for one year and then following the children as they transfer to the secondary phase or to a middle school. The project involves two thirds of the schools used in the original ORACLE research. In addition, the same observation instruments and the same tests, modified for cultural differences, are being used.

Motivating Your Secondary Class

Maurice Galton and his team have collected examples from various schools of what works in re-energizing demotivated pupils. This book presents practical advice and strategies for improving lower secondary school classrooms, ranging from reducing class size, to innovative induction programs emphasizing the development of core study skills, and developing effective procedures to train pupils to cooperate rather than confront each other during lessons.

Galton, Maurice J

Steward, Susan

Page, Charlotte

Pell, Anthony

Sage Publications Ltd.

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