Category: Communication

• 5 Ways to Foster Welcoming Environments for your Students

  With so many Educators embarking on a new beginnings this time of year, it is a great time to reflect upon how we can create Welcoming Environments for our students and parents. Creating classrooms and schools that are Welcoming for both students and parents, is absolutely essential to improving Student Learning and Engagement. If we […]

  Deborah McCallum

  August 31, 2013

  Aboriginal, Best Practices, Big Ideas in Education, Character, Communication, Community, Culture & Caring, Welcoming Environments

• 5 Considerations for Welcoming Environments in our Schools

  Fostering welcoming environments in education is essential for improving learning and engagement. Schools can help acknowledge students by representing their cultural diversity. This can be done by embedding cultural symbols, and practices into our buildings, classrooms, and online environments that serve to help make students and parents feel welcome and important. However, it is a […]

  Deborah McCallum

  March 31, 2013

  Aboriginal, Best Practices, Big Ideas in Education, Character, Communication, Community, Culture & Caring, Welcoming Environments

  21st Century skills, Big Ideas in Education, Communication, culture, edtech, education, Educational Contexts, FNMI, FNMIed, knowledge, Learning, student engagement, Student learning, students, welcoming environments

• Restorative Practice Circles

  Restorative Practice Circles are based upon the First Nations tradition of Talking Circles. First Nations, Metis & Inuit cultures are built upon oral traditions, therefore Talking Circles have been important ways to maintain and pass down important cultural teachings. Restorative Practice is a form of justice, where in the classroom, it could be comprised of the […]

  Deborah McCallum

  September 19, 2012

  Aboriginal, Big Ideas in Education, Communication, Community, Culture & Caring, First Nations, Multicultural Counselling, Restorative Practice Circles

  Aboriginal peoples in Canada, education, First Nation, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Medicine wheel, Metis, Restorative Practice, Restorative Practice Circles, talking circles

• Cognitive Science: How thoughts and behaviours impact achievement and success in Education

  Cognitive Science is a valid, quantifiable field that is able to help us understand a wide range of issues as they pertain to Education and Learning. The research behind Cognition has been focussed on how we think and the way we learn, and more specifically on the systematic biases in of the schemas that we hold about the […]

  Deborah McCallum

  July 1, 2012

  Aboriginal, Big Ideas in Education, Cognitive Science & Education, Communication, Culture & Caring, Ideas for Learning Strategies