Gearing up for Practicum: resources & search tips
Handout: Gearing Up Resources for TCs_Dec 23 During our session, we can help you with finding & evaluating resources to support your planning, suggest approaches to planning & teaching or work with your to get started or refine your Unit or Lesson plans. Before our session, we recommend looking at these resources to get a […]
Digital Literacy: an introduction
Digital literacy “literally” means a new way of being literate – not with books and printed materials, but now with digital materials. These skills are becoming increasingly important in an ever more digitally connected world.
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 […]
