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Foreign-speaking parents: Sidekick Solutions
'I experience a barrier towards non-Dutch speaking parents of my students. How can I close the gap without being pushy?'
Read the answer in the article.
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Self-confidence and growth mindset
With a growth mindset, students learn to focus on growth and the process rather than on an end result and an achievement. Working on self-confidence ensures that students feel good about themselves and that they can learn better. This video …
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Well-being in your classroom
Students who feel better will perform better. If you perform better, you will feel better. This video explains how you can work on resilience and how you can work on well-being every week.
With the Sidekick Solutions, the Academy addresses a …
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How can I help discuss feelings in a playful way?
Over the line is a method for students to really get to know each other and to see where they are struggling. In this playful way you can help discuss feelings. The methodology helps students realize that they are not alone and that everyone …
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Dealing with anger and frustration: Fact sheet
What makes me angry? How do I recognize anger in myself and others? What can I do myself? What can others do?
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Body positivity: Ten tips
How your students view their own bodies today may haunt them for a long time. In a negative or positive sense. No one better than you as Sidekick Sam to swing the pendulum in the right direction. So, recognize the signals and break through the …
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Goose plate
Goose board with four colors to use as a basis for an educational game.
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Dice your birthday present
If it is a student's birthday in the class, he/she may roll a birthday present. For example, they can choose who they sit next to or they can choose a snack.
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Safe boundaries: Ten tips
Transgressive behavior can lead to trauma, but that does not have to be the case. As Sidekick Sam you can mean a lot to students whose boundaries are being exceeded. How? You can read this in the ten tips from Zohra Lkasbi, clinical psychologist, …
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Car-free School Days: Script
During a Car-Free School Day, the school street and sometimes surrounding streets are made car-free for a day. This frees up space for all kinds of fun classroom activities in the middle of the street.
In this manual you will not only find a lot of …
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Behind the scenes: Ten tips
Your students will be happy to give you advice on how to profile yourself smoothly on all those social media and apps. Their tips will probably make any webinar on the subject redundant. But to maintain their own well-being online, they can often …
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Corner work sheets
In this learning resource you will find an example of corner work sheets. The presentation briefly explains what students should do in each corner. Students can indicate on the sheet when they have done which assignment.
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