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Handwriting promotes learning more than typing, scientists claim
A Norwegian team of scientists has investigated the influence of handwriting and typing on brain activity and memory abilities.
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Lesson in Reading: Inspiration guide for effective reading education in preschool, primary and secondary education
This guide contains 16 inspiration cards, each starting from a key question about reading and reading education. Each question is answered on the basis of recent scientific research, supplemented with practical tips and concrete examples.
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Get started with textless picture books and talking boards for all ages
Textless picture books and discussion boards are tools to stimulate language development and multilingualism. This applies to both language learners with Dutch as their home language (NT1) and to language learners for whom Dutch is the second …
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Children's books about diversity and a multicultural society
A list of books on diversity to read or have children read.
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Tim Surma with a crash course in cognitive psychology
Tim Surma is research manager of the Expertise Center ExCEL and can draw on twenty years of experience in teaching in secondary education. He also co-wrote the book Wijze Lessen: twelve building blocks for effective didactics.
In 2018 he was a guest …
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Kamishibai
On the ABC-projects share page you will find useful information about working with or making your own kamishibai:
- step-by-step plan to make your own kamishibai theater (A3 format or mini theater);
- the kamishibai booklet with ideas to get started; …
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Building blocks for effective language programmes: Practical guide for language support in nursery, primary and secondary education
The manual is a practical guideline for researching language integration processes. It provides a practical guide to language support.
This guide describes six building blocks that help you stimulate language development and support students …
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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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Functional and integrated working in basic education
The Network Day of Ligo, centers for basic education, was completely dominated by their new agogic vision. Read all about it in this EPALE zine.
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Variation in the circle on Monday morning
In this article you can read how I try to bring as much variation as possible into the weekend circle: didactic methods, Padlet, quiz, drawing, writing, interview cards ...
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Train executive functions with games
The article briefly explains what executive functions are, how you can train the executive functions and with which games you can practice this.
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Chicken or egg?: Towards strong language education in primary school
Language is a vicious vehicle. We need language to teach the subject matter at school
can understand and learn and refine that language at the same school.
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