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Talking to a child about the news: Seven tips
How can you talk to children about the news, especially when it concerns more difficult subjects, such as a war with many victims?
As a result of the war between Ukraine and Russia, Medianest made this page with tips on how to tackle this.
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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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A safe environment to make mistakes is essential
In the article you will receive useful tips to create a safe environment in which making mistakes is allowed and accepted.
The accompanying poster contains possible solutions to the statement: 'If I have done something wrong then ...'.
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Fear of failure!? What can you do in class?
There are children with performance anxiety in every class. What can you do for them as a teacher?
Read all about it in the article, with attention to helping thoughts, solution-oriented working and self-image.
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Learn language: Review of book
"A book that absolutely must be read not only by school teams, but also by policymakers."
Lieven Coppens writes an honest review about that book by Koen Jaspaert and Carolien Frijns about how language development works, how our image of …
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Give the students more ownership
There are all kinds of discussions in the education world. But what, according to An Kennes, is the theme to bet on? Student Ownership!
Teachers have learned to seek solutions for children who encounter a problem. However, students learn much more …
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Vitamins in times of corona
Distance learning offers new challenges, but also opportunities to motivate your students for their learning process. Maintaining your own motivation as a teacher is also just as important. In this sheet you will find tips to motivate your …
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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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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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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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Caring Class, psycho-education for primary school: Book presentation
Since 2003 Zorgzaam Omgaan, vzw has been working on the Zorgzame Klas project. Initially, the model was intended as a one-off intervention. The interest in it grew steadily and got its fixed form. We are proud to announce the publication of the …
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