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Ruimte en richting in professionalisering voor onderwijs aan nieuwkomers

Case report. Dossiernummer 405-17-720 In deze studie onderzochten we de opzet en inhoud van professionalisering van leraren in basis- en voortgezet onderwijs aan nieuwkomers-kinderen in Zweden en Vlaanderen. Dit deden we tegen de achtergrond van zorgen in Nederland rond de kwaliteit van onderwijs aan deze doelgroep. Opleiding en van leraren maakt deel uit van deze bredere problematiek. De centrale onderzoeksvraag was: Hoe wordt in Zweden en Vlaanderen vorm en inhoud gegeven aan de professionalisering van leraren die onderwijs verzorgen aan nieuwkomers, en welke aanknopingspunten biedt dit voor Nederland? Om niet alleen de opzet van professionalisering op hoofdlijnen, maar ook de inhoud aandacht te kunnen geven, werden drie inhoudelijke professionaliseringsthema’s nader onder de loep genomen waarop vanuit de discussies rond 'Ruimte voor nieuwe talenten' (Schrijfgroep LPTN, 2017) een duidelijke scholingsbehoefte in het veld bestond: (1) de intake van nieuwkomers; (2) de verhouding tussen onderwijs in de tweede taal en de positie van moedertalen; (3) de methodiek van tweede-taalonderwijs. Het onderzoek werd uitgevoerd via een combinatie van deskresearch, interviews met sleutelpersonen uit beleid, professionalisering en wetenschap, en praktijkbezoeken. Het analysekader, tussentijdse bevindingen en eindresultaten zijn op drie momenten voorgelegd aan Nederlandse referenten die een rol spelen bij beleid, professionalisering, praktijk en wetenschap, om de betekenis voor Nederland gezamenlijk met betrokkenen te kunnen duiden.

Onderwijs in burgerschap: wat scholen kunnen doen

It's not rocket science

Out-of-school science educational activities, such as school visits to a science center, aim at stimulating pupils’ science talent. Science talent is a developmental potential that takes the form of talented behaviors such as curiosity and conceptual understanding. This dissertation investigates whether and how out-of-school science activities contribute to the elicitation, emergence, and development of pupils’ science talent. The context of this thesis is the Northern Netherlands Science Network, an alliance of primary schools, out-of-school science facilities, the university of Groningen, and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (www.wknn.nl). Interviews with the schools on their starting position showed that adequate communication between schools and out-of-school facilities is necessary to coordinate the participants’ educational goals. Secondly, the elicitation and expression of science talent was studied in the micro-interactions between pupils and their educator (classroom teacher or facility instructor). To do so, a multivariate coding scheme was developed to measure Pedagogical Content Knowledge expressed in real-time interaction (EPCK). The interaction shows a variable pattern over time. Sometimes episodes of high-level EPCK — so-called talent moments — emerge, in which talented pupil behavior in the form of pupils’ conceptual understanding, and talent elicitation by the educator in the form of open teaching focused on conceptual understanding, determine one another. These talent moments only occur in activities that were prepared in the classroom and with educators who were trained to evoke conceptual understanding. Under these conditions, out of school science activities can contribute to the elicitation and development of science talent in primary school pupils.AB - Out-of-school science educational activities, such as school visits to a science center, aim at stimulating pupils’ science talent. Science talent is a developmental potential that takes the form of talented behaviors such as curiosity and conceptual understanding. This dissertation investigates whether and how out-of-school science activities contribute to the elicitation, emergence, and development of pupils’ science talent. The context of this thesis is the Northern Netherlands Science Network, an alliance of primary schools, out-of-school science facilities, the university of Groningen, and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (www.wknn.nl). Interviews with the schools on their starting position showed that adequate communication between schools and out-of-school facilities is necessary to coordinate the participants’ educational goals. Secondly, the elicitation and expression of science talent was studied in the micro-interactions between pupils and their educator (classroom teacher or facility instructor). To do so, a multivariate coding scheme was developed to measure Pedagogical Content Knowledge expressed in real-time interaction (EPCK). The interaction shows a variable pattern over time. Sometimes episodes of high-level EPCK — so-called talent moments — emerge, in which talented pupil behavior in the form of pupils’ conceptual understanding, and talent elicitation by the educator in the form of open teaching focused on conceptual understanding, determine one another. These talent moments only occur in activities that were prepared in the classroom and with educators who were trained to evoke conceptual understanding. Under these conditions, out of school science activities can contribute to the elicitation and development of science talent in primary school pupils.