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Past issues
All past issues of NERF Bulletin: Evidence for teaching and learning are available to download here.
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Issue 1 - Summer 2004
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Contents:
- Behind the ICT hype: When does ICT really make a difference to learning?
- The Numbers Game: What does the evidence tell us about how we can get better at teaching numeracy?
- Children should be seen and heard: Find out how conversation with children can make a real difference to learning outcomes.
- Thinking Skills can really make a difference to students' achievement: Find out how.
- Children in care: Only 4% of children in care currently achieve five GCSEs at A-C. What can we do to improve this situation?
- What do we know about staff development that works for teachers and students?
- Literacy teaching: What does the evidence on effective literacy teaching tell us?
Plus:
- Using evidence to inform practice
- News on behaviour management, learning styles and more
- What websites are worth visiting?
- Comment from Professor Charles Desforges
- Learning Styles
- How much we don't know: mixed age learning in further education
Issue 2 - Winter 04/05
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Contents:
- Assessment for Learning: How can we limit some of the negative effects of summative assessment?
- Teaching mathematics: Hard, boring and irrelevant - how we can help students overcome their difficulties with maths?
- Hand gestures say more than you think
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Does screening children for ADHD behaviour at a young age help?
- Transfer and transition: How can teachers avoid disrupting the learning process?
- Learning styles: How do we know how we learn and what difference does it make?
- ICT: What are the barriers and how can teachers overcome them?
- Using small-group discussions in science teaching
- Literacy development: What factors influence the development of writing competence?
- Managing Behaviour: What do we know about classroom strategies which help?
Plus:
- Hot websites - international
- Useful data sources
- How much do we need to know about the health of the students?
- Teacher confidence and teaching and learning in data handling: an illustrative case study
- Evidence for healthy living
Issue 3 - Summer 2005
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Contents:
- Teaching mathematics: How good are we at improving students' confidence and competence?
- Thinking Skills: What do we know about the impact on learners of teaching thinking?
- Transition post-16: Are we giving our students the guidance and preparation they need?
- Assessment for Learning: The teachers' role in summative assessment
- Education for Citizenship: What's happening to learning as we implement citizenship teaching?
- Learning in small groups: It's not just talking - it's what you say and how you say it that matters
- The English curriculum: To teach or not to teach? The great grammar debate
- Libraries and learning: Are school labraries redundant in a digital age?
Plus:
- Teaching foreign languages in primary schools
- Memory as a predictor of attainment in national tests
- Whiteboards on the web
- Colleges are best for some young people
- Involving parents in homework
- Healthy, wealthy and wise
Issue 4 – Autumn 2005
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Contents:
• Inclusion and student outcomes: Inclusion - how does it affect all our students?
• Parenting programmes can make a difference
• Praise can make a big difference to pupils' learning
• Developing an ICT strategy for early years
• Vocational learning programmes: What are the benefits and what strategies help?
• Teaching assistants: How effective are they?
• Citizenship Education: Is there evidence that citizenship education raises student achievement?
• Literacy teaching: Is synthetic phonics the answer to closing the gap in attainment?
• What works for writing?
• Blue ink and memory retention
• The National Literacy Strategy: Value for money?
• Window on the world of teaching
• Inclusion-serving the needs of students with SEN: Does inclusion mean more than being in the same classroom?
• Early Years Transition: All work and no play …
• No thanks to leadership
• Poverty doesn’t have to be a barrier to achievement
• What works in early years professional development (CPD)?
• School leadership: School leadership is not everyone’s cup of tea
Plus
• Hot websites
• Health Matters
Issue 5 - Spring 2006
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• Parental involvement
• Problem solving: How can we help children tackle division effectively?
• Information and Communication Technology: Is it a useful tool for early years?
• Modern Foreign Languages
• Developing reasoning: How can we develop students’ investigative skills?
• One foot in school, the other in college: Is it making a difference for the 90,000 14-16 year olds involved?
• Group work: Why group pupils and when does grouping work best?
• Pupil voice: What might we learn from our students?
• Evidence about brain-based learning: Debunking the myths
• Continuing professional development (CPD): Teachers do it best in collaboration
• Self-management as a strategy for managing behaviour
• Evidence that after-school programs improved achievements and attitudes amongst disadvantaged children
Plus
• Hot websites
• Who’s taking what?
• The view from the regions
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