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Time visualization: Tool
The D4E1 Timevisualization aid has been developed as a personalized tool to gain insight into:
- what part of the day it is at a certain time,
- which part of the day a certain activity takes place,
- when an action is necessary for activities within a …
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Homework policy
An example of what a homework policy can look like.
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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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Demand-driven learning: Support with step-by-step plan
Every student is curious about something different. Within demand-driven learning, this leads to a wide variety of learning questions.
Answering your own learning questions consists of several steps that require many different skills from the …
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Toki Pona: Another language
In this article, the artificial language Toki Pona is briefly explained. It is a language with a minimum number of rules and words.
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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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Good practices at Verhalend Ontwerp and STE (A) M activities in the third kindergarten class
The Narrative Design method, also known as the Storyline Approach, is not yet well known in Belgium. In order to give nursery and primary education teachers the opportunity to get to know such didactics, the main points are summarized in 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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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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