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Questions That Help Children Understand Elementary Science (2002)
Journal Article
Newton, L. (2002). Questions That Help Children Understand Elementary Science

Explains the importance of good questioning skills on student learning and describes appropriate questioning types for specific purposes. (YDS)

Training in flexible, intensive insulin management to enable dietary freedom in people with type 1 diabetes: dose adjustement for nomrmal eating (DAFNE) randomised controlled trial. (2002)
Journal Article
Roberts, S., Amiel, S., Beveridge, S., Bradley, C., Gianfransesco, C., Heller, S., …Wright, F. (2002). Training in flexible, intensive insulin management to enable dietary freedom in people with type 1 diabetes: dose adjustement for nomrmal eating (DAFNE) randomised controlled trial. eBMJ (London), 325, 746-752. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.325.7367.746

Understanding in primary school science teaching. (2002)
Journal Article
Newton, L., Newton, D., & Blake, A. (2002). Understanding in primary school science teaching. Investigating the Australian primary and junior science journal, 18(1), 11-13

Encouraging Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom (2001)
Journal Article
Newton, L. (2001). Encouraging Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom. Evaluation and research in education, 15(3), 182-88

Discusses what counts as understanding in history at the elementary school (British primary school) level and describes some strategies that have been shown by research to be effective in supporting the construction of historical understanding. Ident... Read More about Encouraging Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom.

Teaching for Understanding in Primary Science (2001)
Journal Article
Newton, L. (2001). Teaching for Understanding in Primary Science. Evaluation and research in education, 15(3), 143-53

Discusses what counts as understanding in primary school science (elementary school science) in the context of the United Kingdom's National Curriculum Order for Science. Considers the problems elementary school teachers face in pressing for understa... Read More about Teaching for Understanding in Primary Science.

What primary school student-teachers and head teachers think matters when choosing and judging a teacher, (2001)
Journal Article
Newton, D., & Newton, L. (2001). What primary school student-teachers and head teachers think matters when choosing and judging a teacher,. Research in Education, 66, 54-64

Training the Trainers: a report on the DAFNE Project. (2001)
Report
Newton, L., Newton, D., & Sambell, F. (2001). Training the Trainers: a report on the DAFNE Project. [No known commissioning body]

Choosing and judging teachers: What Heads and student teachers think matters (2001)
Journal Article
Newton, D. P., & Newton, L. D. (2001). Choosing and judging teachers: What Heads and student teachers think matters. Research in Education, 66(November), 54-64

Head teachers and student teachers have conceptions of what matters when selecting and judging the effectiveness of a new teacher. This study reports the results of surveys of sixty-six primary school head teachers' and eighty-one postgraduate studen... Read More about Choosing and judging teachers: What Heads and student teachers think matters.

Subject Content Knowledge and Teacher Talk in the Primary Science Classroom (2001)
Journal Article
Newton, D., & Newton, L. (2001). Subject Content Knowledge and Teacher Talk in the Primary Science Classroom. European Journal of Teacher Education, 24(3), 369-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619760220128914

Investigated whether a background in science would make a difference in the oral interactions of elementary teachers in their science lessons. Observations of 50 British elementary science teachers and comparison of the oral discourse of teachers wit... Read More about Subject Content Knowledge and Teacher Talk in the Primary Science Classroom.

Meeting the Standards in Primary Science (2000)
Book
Newton, L. (2000). Meeting the Standards in Primary Science. Routledge

Students’ Questioning and Problem Finding: A neglected piece of the creative process? Keynote presentation 3 July - 6 July 2018.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Newton, D., Newton, L., & Abrams, P. (2018, December). Students’ Questioning and Problem Finding: A neglected piece of the creative process? Keynote presentation 3 July - 6 July 2018. Presented at 16th International Conference on Excellence, Creativity, and Innovation in Basic-Higher Education and Psychology, International Centre for Innovation and Education, (ICIE), Paris, France

Could elementary mathematics textbooks help give attention to reasons in the classroom?
Journal Article
Newton, D., & Newton, L. (online). Could elementary mathematics textbooks help give attention to reasons in the classroom?. Educational Studies in Mathematics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-005-9015-z

Trainee teachers, new and non-specialist teachers of elementary mathematics have a tendency to avoid thought about reasons in mathematics. Instead, they tend to favour the development of computational skill through the rote application of procedures,... Read More about Could elementary mathematics textbooks help give attention to reasons in the classroom?.