James Russo

James Russo

An educator and researcher

James Russo is an educator and researcher interested in a wide range of topics including: the role of challenging tasks, games, and children’s literature as pedagogical approaches; teacher and student emotional responses in the primary mathematics classroom; and the learning and teaching of mental computation and estimation. James writes regularly for a range of teacher-practitioner journals and continues to spend some of his week team-teaching in a primary classroom. He uses this as a space to develop and test teaching ideas, and to stimulate thinking about his research.

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Research news: Getting the most out of early years teacher expertise
Research news: Getting the most out of early years teacher expertise

‘The default assumption has been that being a generalist is what primary school teachers prefer, or else they would have become secondary teachers.’ In our latest reader submission, Dr James Russo shares the findings of a study asking generalist early years teachers at schools in 2 Australian states if they’d rather be subject specialists.