Applied Design, Skills and Technologies (ADST) in the British Columbia Curriculum
What is ADST in the British Columbia Curriculum? The British Columbia Curriculum presents an area called “Applied Design, Skills and Technologies” or “ADST” which has a group of content and skills from traditional and First Peoples practice, existing disciplines of Business Education, Home Economics and Culinary Arts, Information and Communications Technology, Engineering and Technology Education, […]
Performance Assessment: connecting teaching, learning, and assessment to support student
Performance Assessment is a way to integrate not only students’ knowledge and competencies but also the teaching and assessment process. Students will learn in a more contextualized and deep way! What is a performance assessment? This type of assessment evaluates students’ knowledge in a more complex way because students need to show what they know […]
Puzzle of planning: types of hooks
The big picture of planning: There are many ways of thinking about planning. Wiggins, Wiggins & McTighe (2005) suggest teachers are designers of activities and experiences to support students’ learning. As designers, teachers may think about planning as a puzzle they are building: a lesson is a group of pieces that together form a bigger […]
Group Work Strategies for All Classrooms
Teachers can feel overwhelmed trying to support the different needs of their students. A group work activity can be a perfect strategy to encourage students to work together, develop their collaboration skills, build classroom community, and support each other. What is group work? Cohen & Lotan (2014) define group work as “students working together in […]
All Class Response – engage & assess
Educators and researchers have long considered the benefits of students actively engaging in the classroom and how this can lead to gains in student learning. One way to achieve such engagement is by effectively incorporating all-class response or a student response system (SRS) as a part of your classroom assessment (and teaching) approaches. Be sure […]
