This chapter presents event diagrams as a representational tool that allows students to visualize relativistic phenomena. It puts particular emphasis on thought experiments that can help students obtain a deeper understanding of physical phenomena that are hard to imagine. The chapter is intended for …

While Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is nowadays widely recognized, the implementation of CLT in foreign language (FL) classrooms remains difficult. In the Netherlands, communicative learning goals have been formulated at the national level, but in daily practice assessments and learning activities …

Continuing professional development approaches such as professional learning communities (PLCs) could help schools to sustainably work on school improvement to meet the rapid changes in the world around us. Sustainability is achieved when the core components of the approach become a self-evident and …

Research about design cognition acknowledges the importance of knowledge about exiting solutions. Designers tend to employ solution oriented thinking strategies; they generate idea’s starting from initial solutions - called primary generators; they are known to rely on episodic knowledge and precedent …

Part 1 of English as a Medium of Learning in Schools addresses key approaches and terminology related to teaching and learning subjects through English in primary and secondary schools. In addition, it presents a range of benefits and some challenges that teachers and learners face in EML contexts. Benefits …

Part 2 of English as a Medium of Learning in Schools examines effective ways of delivering EML in primary and secondary schools. It explores specific language that teachers need in order to explain subject concepts, to ask questions, and to respond, manage and model language for EML lessons. Planning …

This positioning statement is written for the Centre of Expertise Healthy Ageing (CoE HA) and allied schools within the Hanze University of Applied Sciences. As focus for the coming years, the CoE HA has identified three themes, as well as three so-called ‘enablers’, i.e. approaches, methods and tools …

In september 2019 is de Hildegaertschool van start gegaan met een onderzoeksteam bestaande uit ouders, onderwijspersoneel, studenten en onderzoekers van de Hanzehogeschool. Dit onderzoeksteam had als doel: samen succesfactoren en knelpunten blootleggen in de samenwerking -tussen de Hildegaertschool en …

In de zoektocht naar de grenzen van de toelaatbaarheid van het gedrag en de gevolgen die dat gedrag hebben, doorlopen kinderen verschillende fases. In dit document staan de fases die de Hildegaertschool doorloopt om kinderen met elkaar te leren omgaan, met een toenemend sturende rol voor de leerkracht. …

Research team ‘Parents and teachers: partners in the fight against bullying’ – de Buitenburcht In dit document wordt op toegankelijke wijze uitgelegd wat de school verstaat onder pesten en welke stappen de leerlingen van de Buitenburcht kunnen nemen wanneer zij worden gepest of zien dat iemand anders …