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Better anchor learning with the +1 routine
Testing yourself and trying to recall the important concepts after you've rehearsed something, also known as retrieval practice , often yields more learning returns than going through the subject matter a second time right away. The +1 routine is a …
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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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Gone courses, back to learning objectives!
Things are moving in the first grade of secondary schools. Many teachers notice that it is not enough for these students to differentiate solely within their own regular class group. That is why more and more school teams are jointly taking …
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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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Pikant: Science explains
Culinary days before the bow?
December is usually a month of solid table. Often traditional dishes pass the revue.
If you have the time to prepare something spicy, science will give you more insight into the operation of spicy ingredients. Food …
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STEM is Popular: The Human Body and Science
The Coppens brothers put their body to the test from a scientific point of view every week in The Body of Coppens .
They use the inquiry-based learning strategy:
- What would happen if…?
- Why is our experiment not (yet) successful?
- How do we adjust …
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Scientific research at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station
The educational package 'Polar Quest 2010-12' allows you to link scientific research from the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station (PEA) to a school context.
It consists of three modules, each consisting of an info sheet (with …
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