Digital Portfolios; Documenting an Ongoing Learning Journey
Assessment as an opportunity for growth Assessment helps guide the learner towards understanding their misconceptions and can help them use feedback to set new learning goals. In other words, it allows students to know where they are, where they wish to go and what they need to do to grow. “Assessment is today’s means of […]
Opportunities for Outdoor Learning: podcast resource post
The recent announcement (May 19, 2020) by the Ministry of Education, while clarifying many aspects of what schooling will look like for the balance of this school year, has also caused concern and questions for both in-service and pre-service teachers. Below, I’ve shared a few resources that might support BEd TCs as they plan for […]
Tailoring Your Lessons For Passionate Learning
“The goals of passion-driven education is to preserve and perpetuate the senses of awe and excitement all young children inherently have, fuelling a lifelong love of learning.” Connor Boyack in his book Passion-Driven Education (p. 128) Children are naturally curious! Alternatively, the world is full of learning opportunities and puzzles to be solved […]
Asking and Promoting Effective Questions
“Questioning is one of the thinking processing skills which is structurally embedded in the thinking operation of critical thinking, creative thinking, and problem-solving” (Cuccio‐Schirripa & Steiner, 2000, p. 210). Young children as natural inquirers Young children ask an estimated 10,000 questions per year before they begin formal schooling (Harris, 2012). Preschoolers increasingly use questions […]
Sharing is caring: Open Ed Resources benefit the profession
While the title of this post may sound a bit cheesy, I am quite serious in saying that, as educators, we are in a sharing and caring profession and one way we show this care is by freely and openly sharing teaching resources we have created or curated. Did you know that contributing to the […]