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What stimulates teacher professional learning and collaboration? 03 May 2021
In secondary education, teacher collaboration is used to further teachers’ professional development. In her dissertation, Loes de Jong (PhD candidate ...
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Teaching speaking skills in foreign languages with a practical, adaptive method 13 November 2020
Tailoring teaching to students’ learning needs in speaking skills in modern foreign languages is desirable, but difficult to achieve in regular classe...
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How to create a successful transnational learning environment 09 November 2020
With more than 20,000 Omani students registered in British programmes in 2017/2018, the number of transnational students is quite substantial in Oman...
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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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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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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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‘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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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...
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Effect of peer feedback on academic writing 24 August 2018
Feedback from fellow students on academic writing is as informative as that of teachers. That is one of the findings in Bart Huisman's (ICLON) dissert...
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Intercultural training in Vietnam 20 August 2018
In Vietnam, foreign trade and culture are pervasive. Therefore, the need arises for students to learn more about cultural differences and intercultura...