Category: Instructional Design

• How do we design our Math Class?

  

  I have been doing a lot of reflecting about math, in particular thinking about different types of math class situations, and considering what kinds of questions we need to ask to help students develop conceptual knowledge. In our math classes it is important to provide students with cognitively demanding tasks. Rich tasks are great examples […]

  Deborah McCallum

  December 9, 2017

  Big Ideas in Education, Instructional Design, Math

  Instructional Strategies, math

• Question Matrix for Instructional Design

  This is a Question Matrix I created to help to explore the curriculum based on important questions we need to be asking ourselves when designing our programs. It was inspired by the work of Dillon (2009). It is very big and complicated – perhaps quite impractical – but it is also very organized and comprehensive. […]

  Deborah McCallum

  July 6, 2016

  Instructional Design

  Big Ideas in Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Matrix, Instructional Design, lesson planning, Planning tool for educators, Question Matrix for Curriculum Design, Questioning in Education, Rich questions, Unit Planning