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The relationship between global citizenship education and education for sustainable development
The Sustainable Development Goals promote global citizenship education and education for sustainable development as the ideal frameworks for bringing global challenges into the classroom. Due to their increasing popularity, the question arises …
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From a diverse book collection to an inviting reading place: How schools build a quality reading environment
36 primary and secondary schools started a process in January 2021 where they will develop a high-quality reading environment, supported by a supervisor.
Weeding, registering and expanding the book collection at school were some of the first actions …
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The System of the Houses
Kassim, a teacher from a school in Rwanda, introduced The System of the Houses there.
There the students are not only divided into grades, but also into houses , each with their own color.
Jan Royackers wrote an article about this.
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Blogging teachers with ideas to differentiate
Stories, articles, podcasts ... about differentiation appear regularly. Saskia Vandeputte and Jan Royackers collected their six favorite differentiation posts:
- top strategies for learning;
- differentiated evaluation;
- the review committee;
- class …
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Working with jokers: Activating work form
Students use a joker during an assignment or test. You determine in advance what that joker means: extra support, a question that is omitted or an evaluation criterion that weighs double.
In the screencast Saskia Vandeputte explains more about …
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Has everyone understood?
Has everyone understood? With that question you rarely find out what students have mastered and what not.
In this article, Saskia Vandeputte gives fifteen ways to evaluate formatively, divided into three categories:
- at the beginning of the lesson …
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Feather and stone: Working on low self-esteem
The article explains how you can use feathers and stones to help students with low self-esteem and a perfectionist attitude determine that their school results are good and that their bar is set too high.
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Improve educational practice for cognitively gifted students
In attachment you will find a number of lesson plans that were made as part of the TALENT project. They can serve as inspiration for teaching students with a strong cognitive function.
How do you motivate them? How do you differentiate? Which …
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Need to create learning materials
This article provides tips for making games, for example to support the NT2 lessons. It describes experiences with the development of need-oriented teaching materials, tailored to the student.
Indirectly it is advertising for Smartphoto, with which …
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Discussing difficult topics: Newsletter
When talking about radicalization of young people, politics and media sometimes look at education for solutions. However, a ready-made remedy is not always evident.
Educational experts ask questions like: what is radicalization, it only affects …
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Summer School: Stimulating language acquisition in a playful way
In this article you can read how a lesson week at the summer school in Antwerp looks and comes about. Interaction and active language use are key concepts for good language education, just like creating a safe environment for the children. The text …Translated by
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Class: File Radicalization
On the Klasse website you will find a file that deals with the danger of extreme radicalization, how you recognize, approach and prevent it. Swastika's on pen pockets or extreme Facebook statuses about Syria, sooner or later every school will …
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