Christine Del Notaro has been teaching at the University of Geneva in the field of mathematics didactics for more than twenty years and trains future primary teachers in this field. She is continuing her research work on the constitution of…
Article
As many of you know, the teachers at our school form an exceptional team of which we can be proud; for more than 8 years, all of our employees have been trained internally in an educational approach associated with tools…
Nadine Gaudin, a world-renowned trainer, has kindly accepted to do a Zoom session on Positive Discipline Tuesday 24th of November from 9am to 12am. We hope this will enable you to take a step back during these difficult times and share some of the challenges you…
Even if it is now scientifically proven that the human brain, when listening to music, activates (among other things) the brain areas that process language, does this mean that music is a language in its own? It is true that…
The world is changing. The human brain is challenged, for the first time since the birth of humanity, by technological tools that are re-programmed thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms. The resulting changes are occurring at a speed that is…
According to Tomlinson, today’s classroom is a ‘jigsaw of learners’ with different backgrounds, experiences, learning styles and, consequently, needs (2015). Every child in the classroom is unique and has reached a distinctive stage of development and of achievement. At Ecole…
What is it? Used by nearly 20,000 schools around the world, the sensory material developed by Maria Montessori allows the child to distinguish, specify and generalize, from the concrete to the concept and from the concept to the abstract. It…
Since 2014, coding was introduced in British schools for pupils from the age of five. Since that same year, Eden School has included the subject in the school curriculum. Coding or programming involves using languages to ask a computer to…
At Eden School, the Visual Arts are taught in the same way as Music or Maths. When teaching Visual Arts we must put in place a learning system that addresses the discipline as such as well as the interdisciplinary and…
Many scholars have stressed the impact of assessment on student progress and learning. It is a central part of the latter as it transparently attests that teaching standards and learning objectives are being met (Jarvis, 2007). As a deliberate school…
In education, pioneering ideas are as much about intuition as they are about pragmatism. They are the reflection of a necessity. Their authors are passionate teachers, often dissatisfied with their practice. At first, they may question these ideas when confronted…
«All children learn their mother tongue naturally through listening and imitating.» Shin’ichi Suzuki This simple observation inspires and guides the great Japanese teacher Shin’ichi Suzuki- in mid-XXth century- to develop a method to learn to play an instrument based on…
