Effective Group Work in Primary School Classrooms The SPRinG Approach - Kutnick, Peter; Blatchford, Peter (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2014)
Foreword -- 1. Can the grouping of children in classrooms affect their learning: an introduction to social pedagogy -- 2. Groups and classrooms -- 3. The SPRinG Project: the intervention programme and the evaluation methods -- 4. SPRinG at Key Stage 1: Effective group work with young children -- 5. Improving the effectiveness of collaborative group work at KS2: effects on pupil attainment, classroom behaviour and attitudes -- 6. ScotSPRinG: The effects of group work in Scottish primary schools on attainment, interaction and classroom relationships: Relational familiarity and class composition on support for group work; Andrew Tolmie -- 7. Teachers' experiences of implementing the SPRinG Programme in schools; Ed Baines -- 8. Conclusions: The contribution of SPRinG to knowledge about collaborative group work.
Keywords: Education; Teaching; Child development; Child psychology; School psychology