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These folders link to research-informed readings used by IOE facilitators to support R&D in schools. As such, the intention is that they should be shared and used to prompt reflection and discussion.

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In the Classroom

Active Learning and Teaching

• Learning performance improvement (C. Watkins)
• Constructivism (G. Petty)
• Feuerstein's Legacy (PDT)

Assessment for Learning

• AfL - what, why, how (D. Wiliam)
• Enculturating learners into communities of practice (D. Wiliam)
• Hattie's effect sizes (G. Petty)
• Issues for teachers in Assessment (P. Black)
• Classroom Questioning (K. Cotton)

Behaviour for Learning

• Classroom Management (G. Petty)
  
• Classroom Management: Teacher-Student Relations (G. Petty)
  
• Classroom Management: Mental Set (G. Petty)
  

Collaborative Learning

• Collaborative Thinking in Primary Maths (F. Monaghan)
• Learning Teams (G. Petty)
• Children's Social Development (Howe and Mercer)
• An overview of Cooperative Learning (Johnson and Johnson)
• Pupil grouping for learning (P. Blatchford et al)
  

Creativity

• What is Creative Learning? (Creative Partnerships)
• Model of Assessing Creativity (G. Petty)
  
• Artful Thinking (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
  
• Culture, Creativity and Education (Signature Pedagogies)
  

Dialogue for Learning

• Pupil grouping for learning (Blatchford et al)
• Cooperative Learning (Johnson and Johnson)
• Classroom Questioning (K. Cotton)
• Children's Talk (Mercer et al)
• Dialogic Teaching Essentials (R. Alexander)

Differentiation

• Differentiated Instruction (L. McQuarrie et al)
• In-class ability grouping (T. Campbell)
  

Preteaching for Maths

• Preteaching v Concurrent Teaching (D. Carnine)
• Preteaching (ENQUIRE)
• PreTeaching and ReTeaching Maths for low achievers (Lally et al)
• Integrating Academic Maths Language (S. Irujo)

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