Groei

23 november 2018

Zo, we zijn weer een ruime maand terug uit Amerika. Een reis waar ik nog zeer veel mee in mijn hoofd zit. Mooi om te merken dat ik het juiste beroep gekozen heb, aangezien het onderwijs me zo bezig kan houden. Het is grappig om terug te horen dat sommigen even dachten dat ik meteen […]

Samenvattend

27 oktober 2018

Het zit erop, alle scholen zijn bezocht en wat hebben we veel gezien en genoten. Als samenvattende, laatste blog kies ik het schrijven in het Nederlands. Dit voor de collega’s die het Engels minder beheersen. Het leest toch luchtiger. Ik merk dat deze reis, de CES-reis, een achtbaan is geweest. Ik ben daar vol energie […]

Now what?

26 oktober 2018

Today we had our last visit of this trip: Parker High, a highschool in Boston. This was the first high school we’ve seen, and it really had the CES-principles inbedded in their way of teaching. I saw great things again today. In classes, I spoke with students and teachers. All were so enthusiastic about school. […]

Tiny Things

26 oktober 2018

Today we visited our first school in Boston, the Mission Hill school. It was, again, a very interesting visit. I really saw some things that made me wonder and filled me with joy! However, I also saw some things that I would do different. This mostely had to do with the total inclusion of special […]

Good Grades Gone!

24 oktober 2018

Yesterday we visited the Neigborhood School, which was awesome. We went back there today, for more depth and insights on dilemmas we have in our daily work. One of the cases we did was mine, my struggle with grades in our school. I want to give my students more ownership of their own growth, but […]

Does that make sense?

23 oktober 2018

That’s a question I heard several teachers ask their students. I told a teacher I heard her say it. She said: ‘By checking if students understood what you meant, you reduce the chance of things going wrong, or other as planned later on.’ I will take that with me. Yesterday I told about the ownership […]

A very good relationship

23 oktober 2018

Our first schoolvisit took place today. The touriststatus has depleted. We were welcomed at Castle Brigde elementary in New York. After a short welcomingspeech, we first were taken to the auditorium, where the whole school came together to sing. This was so cool and beautiful to see! Teachers really were vulnerable whenever they made a mistake. […]