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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!
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!