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3.5.7 The Power of Parents in Entering Primary School Levels: A Good Practice

In the Netherlands, most schools have age-based groups where every child starts at the first level. In Nijmegen, schools work together with parents, who fill in a norm-based-entry characteristics questionnaire about cognitive and social aspects of their child at 3.8 years, just before attending school. Schools then let the child start at a level that fits the questionnaire results. At primary school “Het Talent,” there are no age-based groups, and children can study every subject at their own pace and level. The starting point is the questionnaire their parents provided.

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Ingeborg Veldman- de Jonge
ingeborg@veldman.org
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Netherlands

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I’m Ingeborg Veldman, a primary school teacher. My school (650 children, around 45 teachers) is an innovative school with no age-based groups, where a child can study every subject at its own time, pace and level. I’m working with the gifted children in the school aged 4-12. This school is one-of-a-kind. I attend the echa / ritha training at Nijmegen Radboud University, to become a specialist in gifted education, I have 3 gifted children of my own and worked in schools with gifted children for over 10 years.

 



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