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Dyson, Michael; Plunkett, Margaret – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2012
This paper outlines a study of an alternate approach to educating Year 9 students in a residential setting. The School for Student Leadership (SSL) in Victoria, Australia, provides a nine-week program focusing on leadership, relationship-building and self-awareness. The philosophy of the school, which has continually evolved since its inception in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Educational Experience, Secondary School Students
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Davidson, Christina – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2009
School literacy has been identified with specific ways of talking about texts, especially during teacher-led lessons. This paper considers school literacy through a focus on talk about error correction during a time of individual writing activity in an early years classroom. Conversation Analysis is used to develop descriptions of error correction…
Descriptors: Literacy, Error Correction, Writing (Composition), Classroom Communication
Kitson, Lisbeth; Fletcher, Margaret; Kearney, Judith – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2007
In this paper we present findings from an empirical study-in-progress that investigates how a teacher integrates technology, specifically an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB), to teach multiliterate practices when reading multi-modal texts. This research was a collaboration between a teacher and a team of university-based researchers as they used…
Descriptors: Action Research, Technology Integration, Hypermedia, Interactive Video
Warren, Elizabeth; Cooper, Tom – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2007
In early years' (primary grade) classrooms in Australia repeated patterns are commonly explored as an early introductory activity to mathematics. Most young students have an extensive knowledge of and exhibit success in copying, continuing, creating and transferring patterns into other media. By contrast, research indicates one of the most…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Preadolescents, Foreign Countries
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Dunkin, Michael J.; And Others – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 1996
In this study, Australian student teachers responded to four questions concerning the criteria they used in evaluating their own individual lessons and themselves as teachers. The most frequently mentioned criteria involved perceived responses by students, personal internal reactions, and evaluative reactions of others. Criteria varied according…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
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Burnett, Paul C. – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2003
Investigated the relationships between teacher feedback and students' self-talk and self-concepts in mathematics and reading. Data collected from students in six rural Australian elementary schools indicated that self-talk (positive and negative) mediated between subject-specific teacher feedback (ability, effort, and negative) and academic…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Feedback, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills