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- This short leaflet provides practical guidance on how teachers can engage their students in the assessment process through active involvement with every stage of the process (the social-constructivist model), especially in understanding what is expected of them (assessment criteria) and how well they have met the criteria (assessment feedback).
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- Oxford Brookes University
- http://www.brookes.ac.uk/aske/resources/index.html
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- This short leaflet provides practical guidance on the importance of student involvement and a strong sense of community to successful student learning, including encouraging social learning, student-to-student and staff-to-student interaction, student-staff contact and student understanding of assessment criteria and standards.
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- Oxford Brookes University
- http://www.brookes.ac.uk/aske/resources/index.html
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- This report examines how culture influences learning within the context of the Asia-Pacific region and how this relates to the unequal distribution of learning success and opportunities across the region. It discusses learning in Chinese societies, cultural neuroscience and dyslexia in students learning non-alphabetic languages, the disparity between learning in East Asia and South-East Asia with recommendations of issues that need to addressed to meet the future needs of the region. This report was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- Kerry J. Kennedy
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002251/225171E.pdf
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- This paper reviews recent research carried out on studies of the brain (neuroscience) in relation to the biological basis for learning (educational neurosciences). It examines the promise of educational neurosciences, synaptogenesis and neural plasticity, the problem of mouse-based education, dyslexia, mathematics and mirrors in the brain and functional localization on Sukhumvit Road. This paper was published by UNESCO in 2013.
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- Ilkka Tuomi
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- http://www.unescobkk.org/education/news/article/educational-neurosciences-more-problems-than-promise-education-policy-research-series-discussion/
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- This booklet explains the principles that encourage children to learn including motivational beliefs, unfavourable motivational beliefs impede learning, favourable motivational beliefs facilitate learning, students' beliefs about goal orientation, different beliefs about effort affect learning intentions, goal-setting and appraisal, striving for goals and willpower and keeping multiple goals in harmony.
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- Monique Boekaerts
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac10e.pdf
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- This booklet discusses the principles behind teaching the social-emotional skills that students need to succeed in school and life including learning requires caring, teach everyday life-skills, link social-emotional instruction to other school services, use goal-setting to focus instruction, use varied instructional procedures, promote community service to build empathy, involve parents, build social-emotional skills gradually and systematically, prepare and support staff well and evaluate what you do.
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- Maurice J. Elias
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac11e.pdf
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- This booklet outline the practices of reading development and instruction including oral language, phonological and phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, prior knowledge, comprehension, motivation and purpose, integrated reading and writing, texts, assessment, cultural factors and practice.
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- Elizabeth S. Pang; Angaluki Muaka; Elizabeth B. Bernhardt; Michael L. Kamil
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac12e.pdf
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- This booklet discusses how to teach the literacy skills of writing, speaking and listening including learning time, variety of lessons, speaking practice, speaking skills, reducing speaking fears, improving listening skills, frequent collaboration, writing skills and great writers.
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- Trudy Wallace; Winifred E. Stariha; Herbert J. Walberg
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/PRATICE_14.pdf
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- This booklet provides guidance on how to teach science effectively including teaching as a purposeful means to an end, core scientific ideas, deep scientific understanding, complexity of learning, active construction of scientific knowledge, science content and students' interests, expectations for learning and students' anxieties and conflicts.
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- John R. Staver
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/Practice_17.pdf
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- This booklet outlines the principles for teacher professional learning and development that has a positive impact on student outcomes including focus on valued student outcomes, worthwhile content, integration of knowledge and skills, assessment for professional inquiry, multiple opportunities to learn and apply information, approaches responsive to learning processes, opportunities to process new learning with others, knowledgeable expertise, active leadership and maintaining momentum.
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- Helen Timperley
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_18.pdf
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- This booklet provides guidance on how to teach mathematics effectively including an ethic of care, arranging for learning, building on students' thinking, worthwhile mathematical tasks, making connections, assessment for learning, mathematical communication, mathematical language, tools and representations and teacher knowledge.
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- Glenda Anthony; Margaret Walshaw
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_19.pdf
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- This booklet provides an introduction to the principles of effective teaching including a supportive classroom climate, opportunity to learn, curricular alignment, establishing learning orientations, coherent content, thoughtful discourse, practice and application activities, scaffolding students' task engagement, strategy teaching, co-operative learning, goal-oriented assessment and achievement expectations.
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- Jere Brophy
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac01e.pdf
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- This booklet offers practical guidance on how to teach other languages including characteristics of learners of other languages, learning another language is a process, designing courses for learning other languages, designing and organizing classroom tasks, reading and vocabulary learning in other languages, writing and extended discourse, error correction and feedback in language learning, technology and the teaching of other languages, assessment and professional development for teachers of other languages.
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- Elizabeth B. Bernhardt
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_20.pdf
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- This booklet presents the ten research-based principles of instruction and suggestions for classroom practice including daily review, present new material using small steps, ask questions, provide models, guide student practice, check for student understanding, obtain a high success rate, provide scaffolds for difficult tasks, independent practice and weekly and monthly review.
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- Barak Rosenshine
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_21.pdf
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- This booklet provides suggestions for teachers on how to improve fraction instruction, including early introduction to fractions, fractions are numbers, manipulatives and visual representations of fractions, estimation before computation, directly confront common fraction arithmetic misconceptions, real-world contexts, proportional reasoning and teacher understanding.
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- Lisa Fazio; Robert Siegler
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_22.pdf
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- This booklet provides guidance on teaching social sciences (including the subjects of social studies, history, geography, economics and classical studies) to improve student outcomes including alignment: identifying prior knowledge, aligning teaching to desired outcomes, providing opportunities to revisit learning; connection: drawing on relevant content, ensuring inclusive content, establishing productive learning relationships, promoting dialogue, sharing power with students; interest: maximizing student interest, satisfying diverse motivational needs, using a variety of activities; and teaching as inquiry.
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- Claire Sinnema; Graeme Aitken
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_23.pdf
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- This booklet discusses the effects that emotions have on students' learning and achievement, including understanding emotions, individual and cultural differences, positive emotions and learning, negative emotions and learning, self-confidence, task values and emotions, emotion regulation, classroom instruction and teacher emotions, goal structures and achievement standards, test-taking and feedback and families, peers and school reform.
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- Reinhard Pekrun
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_24eng.pdf
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- This booklet examines how educational practice can be used to encourage creative thinking including how creativity can be promoted through all school subjects, influence creative thinking through well-designed learning spaces, increase the use of open-ended questions, engage learners in meaningful and authentic activities, collaboration enhances creativity, make efficient use of educational technologies, allow for mistakes and sensible risk-taking and learning how to assess and reward creativity.
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- Panagiotis Kampylis; Eleni Berki
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_25eng.pdf
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- This booklet provides guidance on what parents can do to help their children do well in school including the curriculum of the home, parent/child relationship, routine of family life, family expectations and supervision, homework, school/home communication, parental involvement, parent education, family/school relationships and families and communities.
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- Sam Redding
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac02e.pdf
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- This booklet discusses briefly a range of educational practices that promote learning including parent involvement, graded homework, aligned time on task, direct teaching, advance organizers, the teaching of learning strategies, tutoring, mastery learning, co-operative learning and adaptive education.
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- Herbert J. Walberg; Susan J. Paik
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac03e.pdf
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- This booklet discusses strategies and practices for improving mathematics instruction including the opportunity to learn, focus on meaning, learning new concepts and skills while solving problems, opportunities for both invention and practice, openness to student solution methods and student interaction, small-group learning, whole-class discussion, number sense, concrete materials and students' use of calculators.
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- Douglas A. Grouws; Kristin J. Cebulla
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac04e.pdf
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- This booklet discusses the principles for effective tutoring including real-life goals, question and prompt, check and correct errors, discuss and praise, reading: support and review, writing: map and edit, mathematics: make it real and summarize, recruit and match partners, provide training and materials and monitor and give feedback.
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- Keith Topping
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac05e.pdf
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- This booklet presents the principles for effectively teaching an additional language including comprehensible input, language opportunities, language practice, learning strategies, listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar and comprehensible pronunciation.
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- Elliot L. Judd; Lihua Tan; Herbert J. Walberg
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac06e.pdf
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- This booklet outlines the psychological principles for how children learn including active involvement, social participation, meaningful activities, relating new information to prior knowledge, being strategic, engaging in self-regulation and being reflective, restructuring prior knowledge, aiming towards understanding rather than memorization, helping students learn to transfer, taking time to practice, developmental and individual differences and creating motivated learners.
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- Stella Vosniadou
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac07e.pdf
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- This booklet provides guidance on how to effectively prevent problem behaviour in young people which parents and educators have to deal with and can influence including start prevention early, positive consequences matter, effective negative consequences matter, build skills through practice, monitor a child's behaviour, limit opportunities for misbehaviour, reduce environmental stressors, limit biological risks, discourage aggression and create appropriate norms.
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- Sharon L. Foster; Patricia Brennan; Anthony Biglan; Linna Wang; Saud al-Ghaith
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- UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
- http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac08e.pdf