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The Feedback-Friendly Classroom
How do you create a Feedback-Friendly culture with your learners? Join the Book Club for the month of January, 2018, starting January 9 online at TeachOntario: https://www.teachontario.ca/community/explore/TO-OSLA-book-club/projects/the-feedback-friendly-classroom-book-club Check out Pembroke Publishers for more information about the book, See you online! Deborah McCallum
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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 […]
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Reflections on #TheMathPod with Cathy Fosnot: The Meaning of Context
I recently listened to The Math Pod recording with Cathy Fosnot and Stephen Hurley from VoiceEd Radio. This podcast really helped me to think about the different lenses that we use to teach math. This is where my thinking went. This caused me to connect with ‘lenses’ I have heard, particularly out in the […]
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Math & Identity
I just read this great piece by Karin Brodie: Entitled: Yes, mathematics can be decolonised. Here’s how to begin When we think about math, we often think about the content – but what about the way we think about it, the way it is taught? If think about math in these ways, we are […]
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Joseph Boyden
This morning I read the following new article by Joseph Boyden in MacLeans. It gave me a lot to think about. Here is the article. http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/my-name-is-joseph-boyden/ This article really brings into question for me about what being Indigenous really means, and what elements create your own identity. On one hand, it has really struck me […]
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Language, Culture & Math
I just spent the last 3 days at a Summer Academy for Purposeful Math Planning. I was very intrigued when we were discussing number sense and the need to become more flexible with numbers and how we use them in our world. Only one person brought up the issue of culture and how numbers are […]
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Teaching and Assessment with Math Processes
Teaching and assessment in math go hand in hand. What ties them together are the mathematical processes. Our job as teachers is to help students build mathematical knowledge and skills of the curriculum through the 7 mathematical processes. They include: problem solving reasoning and proving reflecting selecting tools and computational strategies connecting representing communicating For […]
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Professional Learning: Does it work?
I have been doing some research lately into Training Evaluation, and quite unexpectedly have become intrigued at how we measure professional development and whether it really works. A lot of time, money, effort, resources, blood, sweat, and tears goes into PD. We as educators provide and receive PD regularly, but does it change our learning […]
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What is the purpose of Decodable Texts?
Decodables versus levelled readers
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Thanks for the Feedback
by Deb McCallum This year I have been diving deeper into learning more about cognitive biases, and our blind spots. My doctorate course with Dr. Katz last winter was very insightful into helping me to understand how our biases can impact our work. When I think about my own influence in education, I think about […]
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Launching the new Learning Forward Ontario Literacy Network
Learning Forward Ontario proudly presents a new four-part event series that will lead to a new Ontario Literacy Network! Our first 2 events feature @KathleenGLundy & @JennyKayDupuis First session: Join us virtually on Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 at 9:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. EST we launch a four-part Literacy Network Series. Our first guest speaker, […]
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