Effective Group Work in Primary School Classrooms The SPRinG Approach /

• Main Authors: Kutnick, Peter (Author), Blatchford, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education ; 8
• Subjects: Education.; Teaching.; Child development.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Learning & Instruction.; Child and School Psychology.; Childhood Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

This book offers a challenge to traditional approaches to classroom teaching and pedagogy. The SPRinG (Social Pedagogic Research into Groupwork) project, part of a larger research programme on teaching and learning funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), was developed to enhance t...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• 1. Can the grouping of children in classrooms affect their learning: an introduction to social pedagogy
• 2. Groups and classrooms
• 3. The SPRinG Project: the intervention programme and the evaluation methods
• 4. SPRinG at Key Stage 1: Effective group work with young children
• 5. Improving the effectiveness of collaborative group work at KS2: effects on pupil attainment, classroom behaviour and attitudes
• 6. ScotSPRinG: The effects of group work in Scottish primary schools on attainment, interaction and classroom relationships: Relational familiarity and class composition on support for group work; Andrew Tolmie
• 7. Teachers’ experiences of implementing the SPRinG Programme in schools; Ed Baines
• 8. Conclusions: The contribution of SPRinG to knowledge about collaborative group work.