Benjamin Hertz

Benjamin Hertz is the coordinator of the Future Classroom Lab in Brussels, where he works with policy makers, educational professionals and ICT vendors to develop and showcase innovate teaching & learning scenarios. Benjamin also manages the European Schoolnet Academy project.
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Moving to Maths 2.0 - Rerun (SchoolEducationGateway)

A key challenge in teaching Maths is not only its fundamental principles, process and applications, but also fostering a sense of curiosity and confidence in transferring the knowledge and skills to new situations. In other words helping pupils to understand the relevance of this competence outside of the Maths [...]

Shared Leadership and School Development (SchoolEducationGateway)

The Shared Leadership & School Development course therefore explores how school leaders, teachers, and others can support the development of a distributed leadership approach at school level. The course defines distributed leadership and why it is an effective leadership model for schools before going into details and examples of [...]

Mentoring in Schools (European Schoolnet Academy)

Join us on this course to explore how mentors can support and develop the work of teachers in schools. The course aims to support mentors working with teachers by offering them strategies and tools for their work with teachers as well as examples of effective mentorship approaches leading to [...]

Online Safety Course (European Schoolnet Academy)

The online safety MOOC aims to empower primary and secondary teachers and give them a better understanding of the opportunities, risks and challenges presented to children and young people, and their parents and teachers, in the online world of the 21st century. Teachers will learn about a variety of [...]

Boosting a Sense of Initiative and Entrepreneurship in Your Students (European Schoolnet Academy)

This course has been designed with the intention to provide concrete examples for the practical implementation of the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp). Each module consists of several videos, illustrating lesson plans, teaching activities, or possible resources that could enable teachers and educators to foster entrepreneurial skills in their [...]

Navigation through the ages (European Schoolnet Academy)

Since early times, the observation of the sky has been a key cultural element and has played an important role in the way we live. In The Navigation through the Ages MOOC, we will explore the rich history of navigation, and journey together from ancient Greece, the fifteenth century European explorers [...]

Cultural Diversity in Your Classroom-Rerun (SchoolEducationGateway)

The course offers teachers an opportunity to access useful resources and exchange with peers on the challenging topic of cultural diversity in classrooms. The course is part of a 3-part series of courses exploring the topic of cultural diversity, the situation of newly arrived migrants in general and how [...]

Integrating Newly Arrived Migrant Students in Schools (SchoolEducationGateway)

The course will explore the practicalities of integrating newly arrived migrant students in a school community and will look at how teachers can work at a very practical level with such students in their classrooms. The course will continue the work started by participants in course 2 of building [...]

Administering School ICT infrastructure: developing your knowledge and skills (European Schoolnet)

This course brings ICT together administrators to hear about current practices and new developments, to learn from each other and to reflect on their work through a mix of over 20 specially commissioned video case studies produced by practitioners, live webinars with expert input, and stimulating, enjoyable and relevant [...]

How to Teach Computing: An Introduction to Concepts, Tools and Resources for Primary Teachers (European Schoolnet)

Technology is everywhere, if we like it or not. And nearly all future jobs require us to understand it. To respond to this, governments are including computing in national curricula for students of all ages. In the UK already every primary school teacher has to teach computing concepts and [...]