Kategori: Teaching
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Cooperative teaching?
I like to prepare a new history course for my students, but it can be very time consuming. If there is a textbook on the subject, you can start from there and add some online material, but unless you have time for hours of surfing, you might not stumble upon the BEST online material for […]
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Synthesis activities in the 21st century classroom
(This blog is inspired by a blogpost of my honoured tribemate Starr Sackstein — you should really go follow her) When you have worked your way through a novel with a class for weeks it is great to finish off with some synthesis activities and presentations to really let the story sink in. If you can find […]
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Dare we go with classroom flow?
This week I participated in #edchatDe, a german twitterchat for educators. One of the questions was : Q2: What rules and rituals have you introduced to create a positive atmosphere? #EdchatDE — EdchatDE (@EdchatDE) 19. november 2013 And my answer was: @Lektoren I practise that sometimes. But — surprises and “adventurous lessons” own values as well, especially […]
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Let your students curate teaching material
I just finished a short “speaker’s course” in 1.g (students are app. 16 ys.), where we looked at different reasoning techniques before students prepared and gave a speech themselves in class. As an introduction I let the students share links to a video of a favorite speaker before class in a shared Google Doc. They picked […]
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Writing course in K12 — tips and tricks
I just finished a beginner’s course on writing skills with one of my classes (first level in upper secondary school , the students are 16–17 years.) The purpose was to teach the students different tools and approaches, that will be useful in a writing proces. The students assignment was to write a “letter to the editor” […]
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Danish history for dummies
Dear exchange student, how would you like to write this assignment, when your class mates write ‘Danish/history-assignment’ ?: “Write a small account (5 pages) of Danish history from year 1000 to 2000 for future exchange students in English. Which events are the most important to understand Danes ? You can write about the vikings, the founding of […]