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Critical thinking in secondary education: Allow at least 1% doubt
'Turn your statements into questions and seek out other opinions yourself,' teacher Sara De Jaeghere asks her 6STW class. That's where critical thinking starts. If possible, SIGO Gistel's teacher and media coach would drive her students around …
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How do you reduce your school's water footprint?
Save water at school together? In this way you make conscious water consumers of your students, you protect the environment and your water bill goes down. Let this article convince you by five water-wise schools with an attractive water footprint.
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Lessons learned: Actively process learning with audiovisual material
Students remember the subject matter better when they actively process it. This can be done by having them make a statement, a summary or a diagram of the subject matter. You have to learn, practice and evaluate these productive learning …
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Lessons learned: Effective learning with audiovisual material
There are many techniques that you can apply as a teacher to ensure that students get more out of watching and listening fragments. But there are also many tools that you can offer students to deal with audiovisual material more efficiently and …
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Lessons learned: Feedback that makes you think
Feedback is a process in which students interpret information about their performance to improve the quality of their work or learning strategies (Vanhoof 2021). You can not only make assignments at The Archive for Education, but you can also …
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Lessons learned: Use examples with audiovisual material
Examples help students to acquire new knowledge or skills. Such an example can be an exercise, a demonstration by the teacher or concrete explanation of an abstract concept. Always explain the steps taken, along with the underlying principles. …
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Lessons learned: Support difficult assignments with audiovisual material
Listening skills are the Cinderella of skills: we often assume that listening happens naturally and doesn't actually require any special skills, and that's why listening skills are sometimes treated like a stepmother. But listening is an …
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Lessons learned: Clear, structured and challenging instruction with audiovisual material
The best teachers maximize their instruction time, research shows. Time is money, and 50 minutes can pass in no time, but it pays to make enough time for clear, structured and challenging instruction.
And it is no different for working with …
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Lessons learned: Activate relevant prior knowledge with audiovisual material
The importance of prior knowledge in learning new subject matter cannot be overestimated.
On this page we show you how you can get started with audiovisual material with this building block from the book Wise Lessons from Tim Surma.
Use the videos …
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Lexima Magazine: 2024 edition
Lexima Magazine is a publication of Lexima. With this magazine we inform education and healthcare professionals about prevention and treatment of reading, writing and arithmetic problems, compensatory solutions and ways to work on promoting …
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Strong Shoulders: Brochure
In this brochure VCOV bundles methods that parent activities can use to collect ideas, to arrive at advice, to tackle a problem and to create support among the members.
The methods are intended to be applied during a joint meeting. Some methodologies …
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The road to gender-equal education does not just pass through the school gate
Will cities provide a breakthrough for gender-equal education? Research shows that more urbanized environments also offer more opportunities. In many cases, the countryside is actually lagging behind, but cities should not rest on their laurels …
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