News
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Becoming friends with algebraic formulas 26 October 2020
Peter Kop, secondary school teacher, PhD, and teacher educator at ICLON, studied how sketching a graph of an algebraic formula could promote students’...
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Scrum enhances learning in chemistry education 16 October 2020
Context-based learning has been implemented in secondary chemistry education. Hans Vogelzang, PhD at ICLON, reseached whether Scrum methodology might ...
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‘Lectures with the teacher talking for 90 minutes are completely outdated’ 16 July 2020
Historian Robert Stein is a lecturer in Medieval History. He was recently awarded the Senior Teaching Qualification. What did he learn from the STQ tr...
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Prizes for students 07 May 2020
Ups and downs for students from year 12 and/or vwo 6 who are selected for the Academic Challenge and the Dutch version of this challenge, the ‘Wetensc...
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‘A good lecturer treats students as young professionals from the start’ 20 January 2020
Passionate, innovative lecturers are the driving force behind our education. Janine Geerling, former assistant professor of the Bio-Pharmaceutical Sci...
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2019 Hall of fame 07 January 2020
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Speaking a foreign language: Is fluency ‘a must’? 25 November 2019
Nivja de Jong, researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), has wo...
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Pedagogies in bilingual education 06 August 2019
In the Netherlands approximately 130 out of 700 secondary schools offer a bilingual stream. However, research about CLIL (Content and Language Integra...
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'Offer research and design processes in a varied manner' 06 August 2019
Research and design are two activities that are becoming increasingly important in the Dutch subjects O&O (‘research and design’) and NLT ('nature, l...
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Focus on extended essays: Leiden University’s Academic Challenge 07 June 2019
For most school students, writing their extended essay (or profielwerkstuk) is the first time they really come into contact with what it means to do r...
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Two major teaching grants for Leiden lecturers 23 April 2019
Studying with an app and exploratory learning in large groups. Two educational innovations that will be possible thanks to the Comenius Programme of t...
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‘Students describe my module as an emotional rollercoaster’ 17 April 2019
Thanks to Ian Cook’s ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ MOOC, thousands of students have researched where their clothes come from. How does this geographer from t...
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Mayke Vereijken appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 01 April 2019
Mayke Vereijken (ICLON) has been appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
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2018 Hall of Fame 21 December 2018
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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New insights to support teachers and pupils 27 November 2018
Good education is the basis for a fair and sustainable society. To maintain a high level of education, teachers, pupils, lecturers and students need n...