The SBO commissioned the labour relations centre CAOP to research the effects and the success factors of coaching by school leaders in primary education. The study was funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education (OCW).

The research shows that new school leaders who are coached by experienced colleagues not only settle in more quickly, but also perform more professionally and feel valued in their work. Coaching means school leaders stay in primary education longer than they otherwise would.

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An improvement or change in your financial and economic position:
This concerns study or training with which you extend your knowledge and skills
with a view to improving or changing your financial and
economic position in society. A deduction appears possible for the costs of
outplacement, in so far as you bear them yourself (V-N 2007/2.20).

Maintaining your professional position:
Deductible training expenses also include costs you incur to maintain the knowledge
required for your professional position, or to keep up to date in your field.

Calculation:
Take the study costs and other training expenses for a course you followed yourself.
Then subtract from those costs any reimbursement you received, for example from your
employer. Finally, subtract the € 500 threshold. The resulting amount
is your deduction for study costs or other training expenses.

The tax authority does not define precisely what does and does not count as outplacement.
That makes this deduction a grey area, in which you decide at your own risk, or on the
advice of your tax adviser, what you wish to deduct.

source: Kluwerbelastinggids 2010
source: Belastingdienst website 2010”

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More interesting still is that the researchers focused on 6 proven strategies that work, which often go unmentioned or are examined only briefly in the textbooks. What are those 6 strategies, and do you have them?

The first two help students take in new information:

• Linking images to words.
  Young or old, everyone takes in information along two primary routes – auditory (for the spoken word) and visual (for the written word and graphic representation). Students learn more when new information is explained in both ways.
• Linking abstract concepts to concrete representations.
  Teachers should give concrete examples that clarify the overarching ideas, and also explain how the examples and the big ideas connect to one another.

The next two make sure students connect different pieces of information, deepening their understanding:

• Asking probing questions.
  Asking students ‘why’, ‘how’, ‘what if’ and ‘how do you know’ obliges them to clarify their knowledge of the key ideas and to link those ideas together.
• Alternating worked examples with problems students have to solve themselves.
  Explanation alongside a worked solution helps students grasp the underlying principles, so they move beyond mere problem-solving procedures.

The last two help students remember what they have learned:

• Spacing out practice.
  Students should practise material several times after learning it, with each practice session or review separated by weeks or even months.
• Assessing in order to strengthen retention.
  Beyond the value of formative assessment (helping a teacher decide what to teach) and summative assessment (establishing what students have learned), assessment that prompts students to recall previously learned information helps that information stick.

Freely translated from an article by The Economy of Meaning.

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The core aim of the workshop is to build familiarity with, and recognition of, today’s youth culture, followed by practical pointers that those involved can put to use straight away.

The workshop covers a number of themes, including:
– Development of the young person in this group
– Mobile phone culture
– How your own behaviour is mirrored in the behaviour of the young person
– The student’s need for clarity
– What the student is willing to take responsibility for
– Social media and its influence
– Understanding why rules matter for students
– How to work with the current generation

A refreshing, clear and practically minded workshop that moves quickly from theory into everyday practice.

The workshop can be adapted to suit your situation.
Particularly suitable for VMBO teachers and mentors as well.

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A challenging workshop for teachers who genuinely want to find the motivation in their student.

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In the study, VMBO students say they do not find their own education challenging enough. “Excellent VMBO students are often forgotten. They are bored at school as things stand, or they want to move to HAVO. VMBO education needs to be far more challenging,” says LAKS chair Steven de Jong. The study also shows that students are very dissatisfied with the process of choosing what to study next.

In the qualitative study, which LAKS carried out among almost 800 students, VMBO students were asked their own views on matters such as safety, lesson content and challenge. Fully 70% of students said they found VMBO easy, and the VMBO diploma is not highly valued either.

LAKS argues for more practically oriented challenge in VMBO. Ultimately the aim should be to raise examination requirements in VMBO as well, so that the diploma genuinely becomes worth more, though a boost in quality is needed first. The number of unqualified teachers should also be cut back sharply. At present one in three VMBO teachers teaches without a qualification; that is far more than in HAVO and VWO.

In the third and fourth year, VMBO students grow steadily more dissatisfied with the process of choosing a course of study. “The poor state of careers guidance shows up in the high drop-out figures in MBO. There is still a lot to be gained in the choice process,” says De Jong. Careers advisers need to be closer to the student, and instead of aptitude tests there should be real conversation with the student. VMBO students in particular need good guidance.

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Tanja Jadnanansing, MP for the PvdA, received the research on Friday in Hilversum at the launch of the themed week. Dialogic surveyed 541 VMBO students for the study.

According to the research, young people are in many respects not conscious enough in how they use media. 80 per cent do not check how reliable their sources are. Because of the range of media they use, 24 per cent of those surveyed are easily distracted from homework and other tasks, and 12.5 per cent have at some point bullied someone online.

Media Literacy Week is aimed at young people between 10 and 14, their parents and their schools. One aim is to teach primary school pupils and students in secondary education to be aware of the privacy risks of using Twitter and Facebook.

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