Publications

Publications are in the following topic areas:

Psychology of Learning
Psychology of Exceptional Learning
The Psychology of Gifted Learning
Gifted Learning and Teaching
Gifted Learning with Learning Disabilities : Research
Gifted Learning with Learning disabilities : Teaching
Fostering Creativity : Research
Fostering Creativity : Teaching
Maths Learning Difficulties : Research
Maths Learning Difficulties : Teaching
Literacy Learning Disabilities : Research
Literacy Learning Disabilities : Teaching
Leading Professional Learning
Leading Learning Communities
Learning Internationally

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Psychology of Learning

What students know about showing what they know: A key in effective learning and teaching. (Munro J., 1999). (pdf)
This article, published in Reflect, 4, 1, 6-13, discusses what students know about how to display their knowledge.

How learners learn : What teachers need to know to be effective. (pdf)
A version of this paper was an invited key note presentation at the biennial Curriculum Corporation Conference How to teach better held on 12 and 13 June 2003 at the Perth Hyatt Conference Centre, Perth, WA.

Framework for teaching ADHD students (Munro J., 2003). (pdf)
This paper was an invited Keynote presentation at the ADDISS Conference, 22 August, Brisbane. It analyses AD/HD from a learning framework and uses this to recommend a teaching approach that is inclusive from a learning perspective.

A learner – interaction model of learning (Munro J., 2003). (pdf)
This is the set of Workshop Notes used to map the learner – interaction model of learning into teaching procedures.

Schools as learning organisations learning more about learning (Munro J., 2003). (pdf)
This paper was presented at the Conference of the International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement, January, 2003

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Psychology of Exceptional Learning

Learning Attitudes (pdf)
Coaching: A strategy for change (pdf)
Cognitive Style (pdf)
Social-cultural influences on learning (pdf)
Public domain theories of learning (pdf)
Diagnosing reading difficulties (pdf)
We know in different ways: how our knowledge is organised (pdf)
Developing effective change / instruction (pdf)
How we learn : A framework for looking at learning (pdf)
Memory is a key link in learning (pdf)
Motivating learning : Why do we learn? (pdf)
A model for understanding literacy learning disabilities (pdf)
Rational emotive behavioural therapy (pdf)
Recommending a reading intervention (pdf)
How do we change what we know : thinking? (pdf)
The Thinking Space (pdf)
What is Educational psychology? (pdf)

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The Psychology of Gifted Learning

The set of articles in the psychology of gifted learning review particular aspects of gifted learning research and examine the implications for teaching.

Intellectual development and gifted learning (pdf)
This article reviews gifted intellectual development from the perspectives of Piaget's stage theory, Vygotsky's socio cultural theory and Bruner's theory of categorization and the implications for teaching.

Information processing models of learning applied to gifted learning. (pdf)
This article reviews gifted learning from the perspectives of information processing approaches to learning , the concepts of attention, short term and long term memory and memory processes in gifted learning and their implications for teaching

Metacognitive aspects of gifted learning. (pdf)
This article reviews gifted learning from the perspective of metacognition and self-regulated learning and the implications for teaching

Psychometric measures and giftedness. (pdf)
This article reviews gifted learning from the perspective of psychometric measures of gifted learning and their values and limitations in gifted learning.

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Gifted learning and teaching
The set of articles in gifted learning and teaching are examine aspects how gifted students learn and recommended teaching procedures.

Defining gifted and talented students (pdf)
Understanding how gifted and talented students learn (pdf)
Understanding & supporting gifted learning disabled students (pdf)
Distinguishing gifted and talented learners and other learners (pdf)
Teaching gifted learners (pdf)
Mathematical giftedness and talent (pdf)
Proposed model of learning : Converting multiple general capacities or aptitudes of high ability into particular talents. (pdf)
Verbal giftedness (pdf)
Visual-Spatial Giftedness (pdf)
Munro J. (1996). A learning base for the education of gifted and talented students Melbourne : IARTV presents a differentiated model of gifted learning.

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Gifted Learning with Learning Disabilities: Research

Munro J. (2002). Understanding & identifying gifted learning disabled students. Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7, (2) 20 - 30 (pdf)
This article describes a framework for identifying and assessing gifted underachieving students.

Munro J. (2002). The reading characteristics of gifted literacy disabled students Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities .7, (2) , 4-12. (pdf)

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Fostering Creativity : Research

Fostering Creativity: Understanding the 'flash of insight' (pdf)

Fostering Creativity : Teaching

Creativity and critical / evaluative thinking (pdf)
Igniting those flashes of insight (pdf)
This article, published in The Age Education section, March 1, 2004, describes our approach of teaching creativity

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Maths Learning Difficulties : Research

Dyscalculia : A unifying concept in understanding mathematics learning disabilities. (Munro J., 2003). (pdf)
This article, published in Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities, 8, (4) , 25-32, describes different types of dyscalcula.

Information processing and mathematics learning disabilities. (Munro J., 2003). (pdf)

This article, published in Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities, 8, (4) , 19-24, shows how differences in processing basic arithmetic information differentiates between average and less able mathematics students.

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Maths Learning Difficulties : Teaching

Diagnosing learning difficulties in maths learning' (pdf)
Maths learning difficulties' (pdf)
Mental arithmetic for addition and subtraction to 100' (pdf)
Teaching part-whole relationships : Fractions' (pdf)
Developing Place value knowledge' (pdf)
Helping children learn algorithms' (pdf)
Meaningful counting skills' (pdf)
Measurement and the mathematics underachiever' (pdf)
Diagnosing learning difficulties in maths learning' (pdf)

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Literacy Learning Disabilities : Research

Literacy improvement : Operationalising and contextualising a conceptual model. (Munro J., 2003). (pdf)
Paper colloquium presented at the Conference of the International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement, January, 2003.

Fostering literacy learning across the curriculum (Munro J., 2003). International Journal of Learning, 10, 327-336. (pdf)
This paper describes an investigation examining the effectiveness on student literacy of including literacy teaching procedures as part of regular teaching in the various subject areas in secondary education.

Improving literacy in the secondary school : An information to knowledge Innovation (Munro J., 2004). (pdf)
This paper describes our part of out work on whole school literacy improvement at the secondary level. A version of this paper was submitted for a forthcoming issue in 2004 of Snapshots: The Specialist Schools Trust Journal of Innovation in Education

Literacy improvement in a primary school : A case study. (Munro J., 2004). (pdf)
This paper describes our part of out work on whole school literacy improvement at in a Melbourne primary school. A version of this paper was invited for a forthcoming issue in 2004 of Snapshots: The Specialist Schools Trust Journal of Innovation in Education.

Phoneme awareness span: a neglected dimension of phonemic awareness. (Munro J, 2000). (pdf)
This article, published in Australian Developmental and Educational Psychologist, 17, 1, 76- 89, describes an aspect of our research on phonemic awareness.

Explaining developmental dyslexia: Orthographic processing difficulties. (Munro, J., 1995). (pdf)
This article, published in Australian Journal of Remedial Education, 27,1, 5-15. reviews reseach on the difficulty some readers have acquiring letter cluster knowledge.

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Literacy Learning Disabilities : Teaching

Effective literacy intervention strategies Part 4 : A diagnostic pathway for reading difficulties (Munro J., 2004). (pdf)
This paper summarises the framework we use for the diagnosis of reading disabilities.

Effective literacy intervention strategies Parts 1-3 : A model for fluent reading, The developmental pathway and Characteristics and causes of reading difficulties (Munro J., 2003). (pdf)
This paper summarises the framework we use for understanding reading disabilities.

Effective Literacy Intervention Strategies Part 5 : Intervention strategies (Munro J., 2004). (pdf)
This paper summarises our approach to teaching students who have reading disabilities.

Sample lesson plans to demonstrate the high reliability literacy teaching procedures. (Munro, J., 2003). (pdf)
This paper provides examples of how the high reliability literacy teaching procedures can be integrated into topics taught regularly in secondary schools.

High Reliability Literacy Teaching Procedures : A means of fostering literacy learning across the curriculum. (Munro, J., 2003). (pdf)
This paper provides the high reliability literacy teaching procedures we have used successfully to improve literacy in secondary schools. A modified article entitled High Reliability Literacy Teaching Procedures : A means of fostering literacy learning across the curriculum was published in Idiom, 38. 1, June 2002, pp. 23-31.

Plumbing the levels of reading : An information processing model of literacy Learning. (Munro, J. 1999). (pdf)
This is a summary of the Keynote presentation to the Biennial Conference of the Australian Resource Educators Association, Melbourne, June 1999, In D. Barwood, D. Greaves and P. Jeffrey (Eds.) Teaching Numeracy and Literacy: Interventions and strategies for 'at risk' students. Melbourne, Vic: AREA . pp. 57 - 78.

Phonological and phonemic awareness : Their impact on learning to read prose and to spell. (Munro, J., 1998). (pdf)
This article, published in Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities, 3, 2, 15-21. reviews recent research on phonological and phonemic awareness.

The phonemic-orthographic nexus: The Phonemic-Orthographic Literacy Program. Munro, J. (1998a). (pdf)
This article, published in. Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities, 3, 2, 15-21, describes the successful literacy intervention program.

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Leading Professional Learning

Leading the learning edge. (Munro, J., 2002). (pdf)
This paper was presented as an invited Keynote Address to the 2002 Annual Conference of the Australian College of Educational Administrators in Adelaide, October.

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Leading Learning Communities

Leading learning communities (Munro, J., 2003). (pdf)
This paper summarises the model of leading learning communities.

Implementing a learning community Munro J. (2003). (pdf)
This is part of an Invited Keynote paper presented at the Metropolitan Principals’ Conference, Geelong, June, 2003.

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Learning Internationally

The influence of student learning characteristics on progress through the Extended Essay. (Munro J., 2003). (pdf)
This article, published in Journal of Research in International Education, 2 (1) 5 – 14 examines some of the learnng factors that influence performance on the Extended Essay.