How and to what extent can social intervention make a difference in boy’s reading motivation and skills at primary level? 1. Introduction and Context 1.1 Context of the case study report This case study is a post-hoc and ongoing action research analysis of an apparently successful reading club for primary school boys in an international … Continue reading Case Study – social intervention
I recently read a beautifully illustrated version of “The Emperor’s new Clothes” with my Grade 2 classes during their library period. I can’t but help feeling like that little boy all the time, first astonished and puzzled whether I’m the only one to notice that there are no clothes, then worried that my vision is … Continue reading In finding the middle way
I'm having a real hard time accepting the fact that the rest of the world doesn't revolve around my research results! What are they thinking! In my mind I have some extremely small asks. Tiny surveys that won't take more than 2/3 minutes of people's time. Getting things on time. Or at all. And above … Continue reading Permission to be frustrated?
I've been geeking out a little with some data in the last 24 hours, looking at the circulation stats of my blokes for the last 2 years plus the last month. Glancing through the table leads to the conclusion that they are in fact borrowing more books - I know that doesn't necessarily lead to … Continue reading Graphical lies and semi truths
Writing a case study with 3,000 words of which 80% are limited by procedural bits and pieces is proving to be a little frustrating because I am learning SO MUCH. So I thought I'd share some of it here, because heaven knows it could help someone somewhere somehow. Remember the whole thing about motivation? That … Continue reading Reading reluctance – factors
This post is about a year overdue, but here goes. Early into my new job as a newly minted Teacher Librarian I started noticing the "lost boys" of the library. Those souls who would wander around and between the stacks with a dazed look on their faces. Or they'd be flicking through books without actually … Continue reading Blokes with Books Club
Did I ever mention how sweet my blokes are? And it must also be in large part since they have great supportive parents. Isn't it super when a parent sends in a permission form with this on the back? And when your students have been filling in a survey form on a lickert scale and … Continue reading Lovely little things
As I wander around my library during recess and lunchtime, before and after school, I realise more and more than reading is not the solitary quiet activity that it's usually purported to be. I've taken to trying to capture this by photographing the communal reading that is going on - which takes me to an … Continue reading (Boys) Reading as a social activity
Introduction The parameters of scholarship in education are often based on Boyer’s (1990) dimensions of discovery, integration, application and teaching. Healey further expands on the scholarship of teaching to include “research into teaching and learning, critical reflection of practice and communication and dissemination about the practice of one’s subject” (2000, p. 169). Broadening … Continue reading Is Digital Scholarship limited by cultural myopia?
Just came across this very interesting infographic while trying to justify a moral gut-feeling on why we need to care about multi-cultural, multi-lingual (MCML) learning environment accommodation for all students. If nothing else - it impacts on the bottom line!
Informative Flights - Musings of a Teacher Librarian 