Tag: 21st Century skills

• Supporting Intermediate Struggling Readers

  

  I find that supporting struggling readers in Intermediate is very difficult. It is difficult to support with a classroom library or school library collection, difficult to run guided reading, and difficult to preserve self-esteem because using websites and books that may be at appropriate reading levels are also often for ‘little kids’. It is important to […]

  Deborah McCallum

  November 14, 2015

  Literacy

  21st Century skills, Big Ideas in Education, Building a Classroom Library, Comprehension, digital literacy, Forest of Technology, Intermediate Readers, Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading support, struggling readers, Twitter, Twitter for Literacy

• The Problem with Standardized Tests

  I was recently made aware of a comment that a teacher made about the removal of standardized tests this year. It was something to the effect of: ‘I have no idea what or how to teach now that the tests aren’t going to happen‘. This was a real ‘lightbulb’ moment for me. I thought, what […]

  Deborah McCallum

  May 16, 2015

  Big Ideas in Education

  21st Century skills, Big Ideas in Education, eLearning, innovation, Learning, Standardized Testing, teaching

• Make School Different: Think Like a Librarian

  In keeping with the meme #makeschooldifferent, I have been thinking more about the philosophies behind Librarianship. I decided to think about this in terms of what I want to START, instead of what we need to STOP pretending. I am passionate about education and have also been working on a project for New Pedagogies for […]

  Deborah McCallum

  May 3, 2015

  Big Ideas in Education

  21st Century skills, Big Ideas in Education, collaboration, Deborah McCallum, Education Commons, information literacy, innovation, Learning Commons, Make School different, Makeshooldifferent, new pedagogies for deep learning, NPDL

• It is not about the technology. It is about what we do with it.

  This year I have been greatly inspired from a Teacher-Librarian at another school, who has been an expert at garnering support for reading amazing Canadian Literature!  More specifically – The Forest of Reading from the Ontario Library Association.  What I love most about what she does, is that she has built a strong global sense of community […]

  Deborah McCallum

  March 25, 2014

  Ed-Tech, Educational Leadership, Educational Technology

  21st Century skills, Big Ideas in Education, Blended Literacy, collaborative inquiry, community, digital literacy, edtech, Forest of reading, Forest of Technology, frameworks, Inquiry, Learning, Literacy, reading

• 4 Top Communication Skills for Educators

    Using effective communication skills in our learning environments will promote student voice, equity, balance, literacy skills, and academic success! I am currently Instructing a College Course in Psychology that promotes key counselling skills via Desire2Learn LMS.  I am able to work with a cohort of amazing candidates who are not in the education profession. […]

  Deborah McCallum

  March 11, 2014

  Counselling Psychology, Psychology of Learning

  21st Century skills, attending behaviours, attentive listening, awareness of biases, Big Ideas in Education, boundaries, counselling skills, flexible pedagogy, FNMI, Growth mindset, Learning, parents as partners, PD, reframing

• 8 Ingredients for increasing Literacy and 21st Century Skills

  Students who access and use libraries and their contents – both librarians and books – outperform those students who rarely or never use libraries.  I am inspired from this quote from the article:  It’s About Access. This is particularly because it outlines 2 very powerful words:  Access and Use. Access and use of effective and appropriate […]

  Deborah McCallum

  May 25, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Educational Leadership

  21st Century skills, Access, Big Ideas in Education, critical thinking, Deborah McCallum, education, Library, Literacy, Print and electronic resources, Usage of Resources

• 6 Reasons to Promote 21st Century Skills vs 21st Century Tech

  “Any educator that aims at completeness must be at once theoretical and practical, intellectual and moral.” Aldous Huxley, Words and Their Meaning, 1940. There are many skills that go into creating that ‘complete’ learning experience that we want for our students. Theory, practical, intellectual and moral principles all play important roles in the development of […]

  Deborah McCallum

  April 24, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Learning Skills

  21st Century Education, 21st Century skills, 21st Century Technology, Aldous Huxley, Big Ideas in Education, digital citizenship, edtech, education, Education Technology, Learning Skills, Media Literacy, Pedagogy, Plato, Skill, Socrates, Technology

• 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