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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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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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Help students to reflect on their work
The students deliver their task in the appropriate drawer:
- green (went very well),
- yellow (it took some effort),
- red (too difficult).
The students do self-assessment via this return system with three return containers.
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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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Dealing with weak executive functions
Executive functions are less developed in people with ADD. This is referred to as 'weak' executive functions.
In the article you can read more about executive functions, dealing with weak EF and training EF.
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Museums open their doors digitally with adapted teaching materials
All museums are closed, but you can explore the collections in so many educational ways.
Just at moments like these, you can introduce children and young people to museums.Many employees have also developed adapted teaching materials and tips to …
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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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Revived sculptures: Posing with statues
This article offers you inspiration if you want to get started on posing and imagination or if you want to work on statues, eg within a drama lesson or within word art drama. You can also work on photography within image by making compositions to …
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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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Why every teacher should teach about fake news
'Fake news is everywhere, and young people are falling for it with open eyes'. Is that right? And what can you do as a teacher? Annelore Deprez (UGent and Artevelde University College Ghent) explains the rise of fake news and tells you how you …
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Podcast: Improve your students' online information skills with these tips
Searching for information online is becoming increasingly important. What can schools do to improve students' online information literacy?
More and more research shows that students are comfortable with media and devices. At the same time, they do not …
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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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