The importance of teacher role in cooperative learning: the effects of high-stakes testing on pedagogical approaches of early career teachers in primary schools

Title: The importance of teacher role in cooperative learning: the effects of high-stakes testing on pedagogical approaches of early career teachers in primary schools
Creator: Ferguson-Patrick, Kate
Relation: Education 3-13 Vol. 46, Issue 1, p. 89-101
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2016.1189946
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: Cooperative learning (CL) has a strong research base, but it is underutilised. This can be explained by teachers' reluctance to experiment with pedagogies in an environment increasingly focused on high-stakes testing. Early career teachers (ECTs) need support to be innovative practitioners, particularly with such a complex one as CL. The teacher's role is crucial in order to scaffold the students' participation in the primary classroom in order to improve their learning and it is teachers' pedagogical practices that help to develop these collaborative work habits. This paper explores ECTs responses relating to their role in CL instruction.
Subject: vooperative learning; early career teachers; action research; professional development; teacher’s role
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409264
Identifier: uon:35981
Identifier: ISSN:0300-4279
Language: eng
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