Therealsnape

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In a few weeks, I have to teach my teacher training course in English, for a school that offers bilingual education (meaning the majority of the lessons is taught in English).

I'm now busy translating my course material into English, as the teachers who work there aren't fluent enough in Dutch to follow a Dutch training.

I need a good word for stappenplan. The stappenplan is the very foundation on which our didactical approach is based, so it is rather important to get it right.

This is how a stappenplan works:

You have this particular type of exam question that you need to answer. This is your plan, your approach:

step 1: Do this.
step 2: Do this.
step 3: Do this.

Thus we break down the process of finding the right answer into easy, clear, precise steps (stappen) that our students must follow. Hence the word stappen-plan. The idea is that for every exam question they have a clear plan of approach: the thing to do is to follow step 1, step 2, etc.

Any suggestions for stappenplan? The current suggestion is 'step by step plan'. The word 'approach' was suggested, but given the fact that the students are Dutch, we'd like to keep the word 'plan', since that is also used in Dutch.

My second question: do you have one word (verb) for 'surreptitiously telling a fellow classmate the correct answer'?

As in, Harry doesn't know what to give a person in case of poisoning. Hermione does, and softly whispers "Bezoar, Bezoar" in the hope that Snape will not hear this but Harry will.

We have one word for this, and I use it frequently. Is there one in English?

Thanks a million, dear flist, for your input!

I'm the happiest fangirl alive. The fabulous mywitch, who is doing her 25 Days of Christmas at the moment, has gifted me with the most fabulous art possible.

I'd suggested an illustration for what I think, in my heart of hearts, is the best story I've ever written, Above, Beneath, Betwixt, Between, the history of Cuthbert Binns and Helena Ravenclaw.

You must all go and look! mywitch has taken the bits about Helena wishing to be an illuminatrix, and admiring the Limbourg Brothers, and she has turned it into the most perfect illumination for the story I could wish.

I'm so incredibly happy with this gift. You'll find it here.


*hopping around in happy dances both on DW and LJ*

What's happening? What?

What??

A party?

Where's the party? Get us to that party!




It's minervas_eule's birthday!

Many happy returns from all of us, and have a wonderful day!

I'm just so happy! Off to have a glass of bubbly with my dinner.

Wonderful news.

I'm so happy for my USA friends, and so happy for us in Europe, too.

Here's a little flower tribute from the Lowlands, and I hope that the Lady Travellers will soon be able to return for things like windmills, tulips, and rice tables!

Have a wonderful day,
Hugs,
TRS

Everyone, gather together. The lovely magnetic_pole and I were talking on my DW/LJ about missing our friends and what to do about it, I mentioned a friend in the same neighbourhood and I have a daily Covid Coffee Corner, and she said, "Let's do this online."

Great idea.

So now the comm is up, and everyone who wants to join can do so. It's on DW. If you neither have nor want a DW account, you can probably still comment anonymously. In that case, please do sign your comment with your LJ name so that we know who you are.

There will be a post at least once a day, made by various volunteers. You can sign up for a post, or just join in the commenting and conversations.

It's certainly a time when we should all stick together and keep in touch with one another.

And, it'll be great fun.

So come all and join the group at covidcoffeecorner. For LJ users, the ink is HERE

Dear Tetley,

Sadly, the Keukenhof didn't have a display that incorporated poffertjes. Still, I hope you'll enjoy this excessively Dutch picture.

Have the most wonderful of birthdays!

There's a delightful art up at femmefest, showing scenes in the lives of Minerva and Rolanda.

So glad to see the OLSB isn't quite dead yet! Hop over and see - there's much to enjoy.

A New Kittyhawk Work!

Notre Dame de Paris is on fire! The images are so devastating. This masterpiece will be lost. I can't believe it. I can't believe what I'm seeing.

The ever-productive mywitch (I don't know how she does it!) has started her 25 days of drawing over at LJ.

Each day there is a lovely Christmassy drawing. Here's the one of the living nativity scene at Hogwarts - Albus thought it was a lovely idea and made sure everyone joined in. The staff has their own opinions.

Nativity Scene


mywitch's 25 days of Christmas are the best advent calendar ever, in my humble opinion. Go and give yourself a daily treat.