How mentoring can raise standards of achievement
Aim: To increase the level of achievement among Year 7 and Year 12 pupils in a girls comprehensive school through regular mentoring interviews between pupils and teachers.
The Evidence People
Attitudes
Sports education: a vehicle for the inclusion and performance of your underachieving and disaffected pupils
Aim: To improve the attainment (A-C %) of disaffected and underachieving GCSE PE pupils through the integration of a school-specific leadership model, to improve pupils attitudes towards and engagement with learning and to marginalise poor behaviour through implementation of the flexible model as a vehicle for citizenship, fostering a sense of belonging, equality, accountability, ownership and enjoyment.
Inclusion - "where do I fit in?"
Aim: To find out how perceptions held by mainstream pupils changed as a result of working alongside peers with Autism and severe and complex learning difficulties.
Science teaching and attitudes to health and environment
Aim: To examine the impact of primary science teaching on children's attitudes to, and understanding of, health and enviromental issues.
Teaching and learning Mathematics using an enquiry-based approach
Aim: The aims of the project were to answer the questions:
What is an effective way to prepare to teach mathematics using an enquiry based approach?
What would be the impact on pupil learning and attitudes of introducing an enquiry based approach to mathematics teaching in year 7?
From theory to practice: using an enquiry approach in a network of schools to improve students' self-esteem
Aim: To explore the potential of using common enquiry strategies across a network of schools and to involve pupils in the enquiry process.
Extending Children's Spelling Strategies
Aim: To investigate the medium-term effectiveness of raising spelling achievement through teaching the structure and process of cued spelling.