PEEL: Project for Enhancing Effective Learning

Database Guide

UOIT Education Library

January 2010

The why and how of PEEL1. Why use PEEL?

What is PEEL? What makes PEEL different? What are the benefits of using PEEL?

2. Searching PEEL Connecting Browsing Refining and Broadening Searching by Issue and Keyword

What is PEEL?

An Australian initiative that has been growing since 1985

Teachers engaging in collaborative action research

An attempt to move beyond “passive, unreflective, dependent student learning”

Research that supports “purposeful, intellectually active, independent and metacognitive” learning “About PEEL.”

PEEL: Project for Enhancing Effective Learning.

http://www.peelweb.org.

What makes PEEL different?

Image: Informaworld database

Less formal than a scholarly article

More than a simple lesson plan

Image: The Educator’s Reference Desk

What makes PEEL different?

Written by teachers

Supports active

learning

Related ideas

Ideas can be used for different

subjects and levels

What are the benefits?

Answers questions like…

How can I help my students link different lessons

and ideas?

How do I encourage

student to take risks?

How can I support students in

monitoring and controlling their own learning?

What are the benefits?

Provides teachers with practical ideas for their classes in short, accessible articles

Encourages teachers to develop “long-term learning agendas”

Helps teachers improve lessons by addressing common concerns and identifying quality teaching practices

“About PEEL.” PEEL: Project for Enhancing Effective

Learning. http://www.peelweb.org.

Connecting

Select PEEL from the Library’s

Indexes and Databases A-Z

list

Login using your Network ID

Connecting

Once you have connected to PEEL, you do not need to

login again

Click on Start PEEL in

Practice

BrowsingThe best way to

search is by

Codings“Codings” refers to to the folders,

or categories

BrowsingStart with a problem…Teacher

Concerns

BrowsingStart with a common classroom activity, task, event, skill,

situation… Classroom Practices

BrowsingStart with a goal…Principles of

Teaching for Quality Learning

Refining and Broadening

One of the most effective ways

to search PEEL…Procedures Groups

BrowsingEach Procedures Group

contains about 15-4o procedures

Refining and BroadeningMany first-time PEEL

users begin their search with

Subject Areas and

Year Levels

However, this will often eliminate many ideas that work in different

types of classes

Selected categories appear in the query

box

Refining and BroadeningTeacher Concern

Search Tip: CombineProcedur

eAND

100+ articles

5 articles

Refining and Broadening

To eliminate a category, click on itDon’t forget to

erase old categories before

starting a new search

Refining and BroadeningPrinciple of

Teaching

Search Tip: CombineProcedur

eAND

100+ articles

1 article

Searching by Issue and KeywordWe have been searching by

Codings

Searching by Issuesallows you to browse

PEEL publications (books, journal, conference proceedings, etc.)

Searching by Issue and Keyword

Searchallows you to search

the entire database by

Title, Author and Keyword

Sources PEEL: Project for Enhancing Effective Learning. PEEL

Publications, 2009. <www.peelweb.org>.

Screenshots Gillies, Robyn and Asaduzzaman Khan. “Promoting

Reasoned Argumentation, Problem-solving and Learning During Small-group Work.” Cambridge Journal of Education 39.1 (2009). Informaworld.

Greenhalgh, Blaine. “Seeing Sound and Sonar.” Educator’s Reference Desk. Information Institute of Syracuse, 2004. <http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Science/SCI0042.html>.

PEEL in Practice Online. <www.peelweb.org>.