Effective Teaching Practices for Reaching Boys
In the December/January issue of Phi Delta Kappan, Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley explore effective teaching practices for reaching boys. In their study, they looked for common characteristics of...
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Classroom Structure and Social Learning
Last week I was at St Marys DCVI for one of our board’s teacher inquiry meetings. At the end of the session, Richard Farmer, an English teacher with an interest in technology and cooperative learning,...
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Will Our Digital Lives Become Digital Histories?
A recent episode of Spark on CBC radio made me think about the way we teach history. The program dealt, in part, with using digital technology to preserve memories, heritage and culture. In a...
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Co-constructing Criteria? Try Developing an Acronym with Students
In an effort to improve student responses to lab questions, Peggy, a Science teacher at Stratford Central Secondary School, developed a strategy for co-constructing criteria. Instead of creating a...
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Student Voice and TEDxOntarioEd
I’ve sat down to type my reflection on TedxOntarioEd every evening since it took place on April 9th. I’ve written about what it was like to get to know the amazing organizing team of Jamie Weir, Ben...
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My Colleagues are my Teachers: Reflections on Teacher Inquiry
Two years ago I couldn’t have foreseen how facilitating teacher inquiry meetings would impact my own professional development. I’ve invested approximately 240 hours as a facilitator, looking at...
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Conversations about Unplug’d: Canadian Education Summit 2011
by Kim Crawford and Andrew Forgrave This past weekend, 37 connected educators from across Canada gathered in Toronto for the Unplug’d: Canadian Education Summit 2011. While we shared a few initial...
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Unplug’d: Unplugging to Connect
by Kim Crawford and Andrew Forgrave Photo by Jeannine St. Amand Central to Unplug’d was the notion of leaving the Internet behind. Various thoughts on connecting, unplugging, and focusing attention...
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Don’t Forget to Show People Who You Really Are
Visual Notes by Guilia.Forsythe Before I left for the Unplug’d Canadian Education Summit, my best friend gave me some solid advice: Try to be open and let people in. Our conversation was a little bit...
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Learning Conversations and Classroom Talk
First we learn to speak, then we learn to listen, then talk. Finally, we learn what our voice means. ~David Booth I’m on a quest for instructional...
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