Nowadays many schools are innovating and often do so by purchasing new electronic school boards. My training school did this as well. They bought several ActivBoards to modernize the school and its way of teaching. The only problem was that many teachers did not know how to use it and the school was …

In the Netherlands only a small number of male students opt for primary school teaching and a relatively large percentage of them leave without graduating. A small-scale research project was set up to explore the question: Can gender-specific student factors be identified in relation to the initial teacher …

Mijn onderzoek naar de Remedial Teaching Moderne Vreemde Talen heeft plaats gevonden op het Varendonck College, afdeling VMBO onderbouw in de periode van januari tot en met mei 2010. Het doel van dit onderzoek was het evalueren van RT MVT zoals deze op dit moment gegeven wordt aan de leerlingen met dyslexie …

Mijn onderzoek naar de Remedial Teaching Moderne Vreemde Talen heeft plaats gevonden op het Varendonck College, afdeling VMBO onderbouw in de periode van januari tot en met mei 2010. Het doel van dit onderzoek was het evalueren van RT MVT zoals deze op dit moment gegeven wordt aan de leerlingen met dyslexie …

A few teachers in the Modern Foreign Languages Department at my teaching practice school Broekland are interested in teaching language in accordance to the new learning approach in the lower years. The new learning is the term used to refer to new learning outcomes, new kinds of learning processes, and …

Summary of the article on the visit to Ukraine by students and teachers of the Secondary Teacher Training College Sittard (Part of Fontys University of Applied Sciences), by Maurice Heemels. In march 2009 a delegation of students and teachers of the Secondary Teacher Training College Sittard visited …

When the editors of this book asked us to write a chapter that reflects our work and thoughts about issues that relate to change and improvement of institutions, environments, and people, we immediately decided to focus on the college classroom and how college teachers and students adapt to new forms …

In our professorship 'Learning Strategies' of the Fontys Secondary Teacher Training College Tilburg, we stress the importance of practitioner research for the professional development of teachers. To investigate our own beliefs, we started a project in which teachers learned to do practitioner research …