Lesson study is a professional development program that combines teachers’ active engagement and observation of teachers’ lessons. During a lesson study teachers collaborate in a lesson study team. In this study, four participating research supervisors have developed, taught, evaluated and redesigned …

In workshops digitaal componeren lijken basisschoolleerlingen de muzikale taal te kunnen leren gebruiken en daarmee hun muzikale creativiteit te kunnen ontwikkelen. Daarnaast lijken ze bij het componeren op de tablet ook op een intuïtieve manier gevoeligheid voor de onderliggende structuren in muziek …

Sociocultural and dialogic theories of education have identified the need to integrate both pedagogical content and language knowledge into teachers’ professional development to promote effective interaction with students about subject content. In this intervention study, a meta-perspective on language …

In order for out-of-school science activities that take place during school hours but outside the school context to be successful, instructors must have sufficient pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) to guarantee high-quality teaching and learning. We argue that PCK is a quality of the instructor-pupil …

Deze morgen vertelde mijn zoon dat over 100 jaar de mensheid is uitgestorven en hij maakte zich daar zorgen over. Onlangs kwamen wetenschappers met het bericht dat het ijs op de Noordpool nog nooit zo dun is geweest en dat er een toename is van Antarctisch zee-ijs. Dit zal binnen afzienbare tijd grote …

Explicit language objectives are included in the Swedish national curriculum for mathematics. The curriculum states that students should be given opportunities to develop the ability to formulate problems, use and analyse mathematical concepts and relationships between concepts, show and follow mathematical …

Some pre-service teaching activities can contribute much to the learning of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and subsequent teaching as these activities are generating PCK within the pre-service teacher's own classroom. Three examples are described: preparing exhibitions of science experiments, assessing …

Dit artikel presenteert een instrument waarmee kwalitatief goede lesmomenten en ‘voorkeurshandelen’ van leerkrachten opgespoord kunnen worden bij wetenschap- en technologie-activiteiten. Het instrument brengt de expressieve pedagogical content knowledge in kaart: de inhoudelijke kennis die de leerkracht …

The implementation of the new mathematical knowledge base in Dutch teacher education institutes for primary education raises a need for curriculum development. Teacher educators have to raise student teachers’ subject matter knowledge to a higher level. In working on this aim teacher educators experience …

We are in the process of preparing a teaching experiment on robotics in primary schools. In relation to this, we investigate in this paper whether it is possible to prepare teachers adequately to implement the intended pedagogy with the help of an in-service teacher education course that we developed. …