This study analyze data from three national contexts in which teachers worked with the same teaching materials and inquiry classroom activities, investigating teachers’ use of strategies to promote interaction and scaffolding when participating in a professional development program. The data material …

A significant body of research supports the affective benefits of drama activities in foreign language (FL) learning, yet little is known about how to train teachers to implement such activities. In this study, we tested a professional development program (PDP) aimed at galvanizing FL teachers to integrate …

In today’s foreign language (FL) education, teachers universally recognise the importance of fostering students’ ability to communicate in the target language. However, the current assessments often do not (sufficiently) evaluate this. In her dissertation, Charline Rouffet aims to gather insight into …

Background Children with developmental language disorders (DLD) face ongoing challenges in language and communication, impacting their learning, literacy, social interactions, and emotional well-being. Speech and language therapy interventions have been shown to positively influence the language abilities …

Gastcollege voor 4e jaars PABO-studenten, programma vakspecialist muziek

In primary music education a key question is what teachers can do to stimulate students’ musical creativity. For the answer, delving into teacher-student interaction during the creative processes in the naturalistic setting of primary music lessons is required. Twenty-six music lessons from thirteen …

Workshop Communicating and drawing with empathic regard

This workshop is, at its core, a basic exercise in how we communicate and how we receive ‘truth’, in how we calibrate in-between, with consideration, to best meet the needs of the person on the receiving end. One person describes, the otherdraws. The describer makes an effort to convey to the other what …

Verslag van de eerste ervaringen die zes docenten hebben opgedaan met het toepassen van begrippen en praktijken uit het dynamisch gerichte TalentenKracht project binnen instrumentale lessen op het Prins Claus Conservatorium.

Als docent, maar ook als artistedcuator en onderzoeker, heb ik tijdens mijn afscheid van MKE ArtEZ samen met de leergemeenschap een #TuinvanOnderwerpen geplant. Voor elk onderwerp, issue of kwestie een bol. Dat konden fijne alledaagse onderwerpen en belevenissen zijn, maar het konden ook minder fijne …