Category: Inquiry Based Learning

• Feedback & Inquiry Twitter Chat Part II

  The Feedback Friendly Classroom: Twitter chat Part II of Feedback and Inquiry: March 31, 9PM

  Deborah McCallum; Big Ideas in Education

  March 28, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, Inquiry Based Learning

  #onted, #ontTL, Big Ideas in Education, feedback, Growth mindset, Inquiry, Learning, Louise Robitaille, ontsshg, Pedagogy, questions, Social Studies History Geography, The Feedback Friendly Classroom, Twitter Chat, Wonder Wall

• 14 Considerations for Inquiry Based Learning

    Inquiry is essential. The fact is that students come to school with partial knowledges.  But the curriculum documents themselves do not address the parts that students know or don’t know. It has been built to present to us about the privileged people and only the most successful moments in history according to those people. […]

  Deborah McCallum; Big Ideas in Education

  February 20, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, Inquiry Based Learning

  assessment for learning, Big Ideas in Education, curriculum, feedback, Feedback Friendly Classroom, Geography, History, Inquiry, Inquiry Based Learning, Knowledge Building, Learning, Pedagogy, social studies, Student Knowledge, teaching

• What is important in Education?

  What is Important in Education?   I have recently been doing some reading and listening to  John Seely Brown, and so much of what he has discussed in his work resonates with my own thought processes and inquiries right now. As I think about how our education system needs to change in order to promote […]

  Deborah McCallum; Big Ideas in Education

  April 14, 2014

  21st Century Learning, Inquiry, Inquiry Based Learning

  Big Ideas in Education, community building, education, education reform, education reimagined, entrepreneurial skills, FNMI, Inquiry, Inquiry Based Learning, John Seely Brown, knowledge production, New Pedagogies, Pedagogy, play

• Inquiry-based learning: harnessing children’s natural curiosity

  A checklist available to help guide your Inquiry planning in Education.

  Deborah McCallum; Big Ideas in Education

  January 23, 2014

  Inquiry Based Learning

  Inquiry, Inquiry Based Learning

• Making the Shift to Inquiry Based Instruction

    Currently I am re-examining my instructional practice, and trying to understand how I can effectively teach students to nurture a sense of wonder about the Natural world around us. With my current focus, on integrating FNMI strategies into the Science Curriculum, I have decided that Inquiry Based Learning is a strategy worthy of researching […]

  Deborah McCallum; Big Ideas in Education

  October 1, 2012

  Best Practices, First Nations, Ideas for Learning Strategies, Inquiry Based Learning, Science

  Inquiry Based Learning, Science