TESpro links and references - 17/08/12
All the weblinks and references from the 17 August 2012 edition of TESpro in one place
propedagogy
Make a little help go a long way
Links and references
Volunteering England www.volunteering.org.uk
A charity which helps support volunteers and carries out research. It has a network of Volunteer Centres that work to match volunteers and organisations. The website includes a link to a database of Volunteer Centres.
Volunteer Reading Help www.vrh.org.uk
References
Bastiani, John, Department for Education and Skills (DFES), corp creator. (2003) Materials for schools : involving parents, raising achievement.
Hillier, Yvonne. City University, London. (2006) Professionalising the ‘do-gooders’: the deployment of volunteers in adult basic skills from 1970. Institute for Volunteering Research.
probehaviour
Bruises fade but the hurt remains
Ian Rivers is Professor of Human Development at Brunel University London. He is the author of Homophobic Bullying: Research and Theoretical Perspectives (2011, Oxford) and co-editor of Bullying: Experiences and Discourses of Sexuality and Gender (to be published by Routledge, 2012).
Tom Bennett’s blog
http://behaviourguru.blogspot.com/
Tom’s new book “Teacher: mastering the art and craft of teaching and learning” is published by Continuum.
To pose your questions to our behaviour experts, add a new thread here: www.tes.co.uk/behaviour
propathfinders
The Peacock Academy
http://www.peacockgym.com/academy
procareeclinic
To pose questions to the TESpro Career Clinic, visit: www.tes.co.uk/careerclinic
proresearch
Fractions and division predict maths success
Robert S. Siegler, Greg J. Duncan, Pamela E. Davis-Kean, Kathryn Duckworth, Amy Claessens, Mimi Engel, Maria Ines Susperreguy and Meichu Chen. Early Predictors of High School Mathematics Achievement
Psychological Science published online 14 June 2012
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/06/13/0956797612440101
http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2012/june/june15_mathsuccess.html
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/newsEvents/64997.html
proeditorial
To contact the editor of TESpro, email: michael.shaw@tes.co.uk
