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Building a Culture of Wonder: Inquiry in Primary Education
Children are born with a sense of wonder that starts the moment they open their eyes and begin to make sense of the many sights, tastes, sounds and smells around them. As they get older they begin to...
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Questions are at the Heart
Questions are one of the most powerful tools that all learners have, because they are at the heart of all good learning. As teachers, we want to see our students care about their learning, learn...
View ArticleActivating Learners as Instructional Resources for one another
Ever wish you had a clone because you had more students to help than you time to help them? Since cloning technology for the average teacher is still a while away, and you are unlike to have a class...
View ArticleThe “How To” of Formative Assessment
All good learning starts with what students know right now. That’s why formative assessment has the largest documented effect of anything a teacher can do in a classroom. But knowing you should do it...
View ArticleMyth: You can’t teach a student to own his or her learning
Some student come to us with a love a learning. Hattie calls them the self-motivated (Visible Learning for Teachers, p. 42-46) and talks about their goal to develop increased competence. He compares...
View ArticleWhat Does it Mean to Think Like an Artist?
Musicians, actors, dancers, and visual artists have a unique way of seeing the world and communicating their understanding through an ever-changing range of expressive methods. This form of...
View ArticleHigh Octane Challenges about Technology
Meg Ormiston‘s SELU presentation starts with a creative commons image and some energetic chatting about her warm home and being grounded at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. For me, that’s a great start. She...
View ArticleImplications of Outcomes Based Assessment
I’ve aligned my grade book with curricular outcomes, now what? After the initial steps to convert the gradebook to measure outcome achievement, doors in my mind begin to open which question how we...
View ArticleA Conversation about Assessment
I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with a good friend of mine, Lisa Aune, who’s currently teaching at Bedford Road Collegiate. She and I have had excellent conversations around: What Really is...
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