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Ladhams, Jan – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2005
The author discusses teaching early child mathematics in an environment of unique challenge in a remote region of Western Australia. The challenges include: (1) a high proportion of transient students; (2) a student population that is forty percent aboriginal, many for whom English is a second language; (3) students who consistently perform below…
Descriptors: Professional Isolation, Foreign Countries, Arithmetic, Teaching Methods
Hatch, Thomas – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2005
Teachers are the "lone rangers" of education. They are sequestered in their classrooms, unable to see what their colleagues are doing. All too often, good teachers have few, if any, opportunities to share their teaching techniques with others in their profession. Based on the development of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Methods, Collegiality, Teacher Effectiveness