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Rubrics and student self-assessment
Recently, I was reading through an article on using Electronic Portfolios and my mind kept coming back to student self assessment. There are several elements of self-assessment that I have been...
View ArticleScience in the Age of Covid Crisis Teaching - A simple experiment linking...
Before we start: It is important to know that everything in the world is made up of atoms and molecules, which are tiny, tiny pieces of matter, so small that we can’t see them.Background...
View ArticleIn Defence of Not Being a Super Hero
Teaching is a profession that is an endless time sink. There is always something more we could do: our lessons could be more engaging; our worksheets could be more appealing; we could create more...
View ArticleOutdoor Games for the Covid era
These games assume that students are playing within their learning cohorts, and that sharing some equipment with minimal handling is permissible (not touching their face during games, washing hands...
View ArticlePlanning for uncertainty and disruption
This is going to be one of the strangest starts to the year that BC education has ever faced. There are so many moving parts and as we go into this, so many of us are facing uncertainty and anxiety...
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Terry Fox day in the Covid era
This would have been the 40th anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope, and allowing COVID to disrupt Terry’s legacy seems incredibly wrong, especially when those who are living with cancer are...
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empowering students for healthy living
Image: From BC Dairy Passport to Healthy Living resource package. Staying healthy looms large in people's minds right now. Between the very real worries students have around COVID and the mental...
View ArticleWhat? So what? now what?
Deepen conversations and thinking with Liberating Structures On May 21, Leyton Schnellert will present “Using Liberating Structures in Middle Years Classrooms to Deepen Learning” at the myPITA/BCATML...
View ArticleConcrete Contour Mapping
One of the challenges of understanding maps is making the jump from the image on the page to the reality of the world. This is especially challenging when it comes to scale, both distance and...
View ArticleVocabulary Variables
Do you have a student in your classroom who can read and write in their home language, but are still learning vocabulary in English? Are you teaching a Core French unit and need a vocabulary list? This...
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