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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>.