Tag: Feedback Friendly Classroom

• Feedback

  

  I think that feedback is one of those constructs in education that seems both ‘common sensical’ yet elusive at the same time. It is absolutely essential to learning, (and we all know this to be true), but for me, the feedback always seemed to something I had to ‘complete’ or ‘achieve’ with the students at […]

  Deborah McCallum

  January 6, 2018

  #feedbackfriendly, Big Ideas in Education

  Big Ideas in Education, feedback, Feedback Dice, Feedback Friendly Classroom

• 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  

  Deborah McCallum

  January 4, 2018

  #feedbackfriendly, Big Ideas in Education

  Book Club, Deborah McCallum, feedback, Feedback Friendly, Feedback Friendly Classroom, OSLA, TeachOntario, TVO

• STEAM Job descriptions for Curriculum Planning

      Using job descriptions can facilitate program planning and student learning. A job description provides us with rich opportunities to extract content areas, learning goals, success criteria, and rich tasks for learning. It just doesn’t matter if the position is paid or not, volunteer or mandatory. The point is that you will often find key […]

  Deborah McCallum

  November 12, 2016

  #feedbackfriendly, 21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education

  #feedbackfriendly, assessment, Big Ideas in Education, curriculum integration, feedback, Feedback Friendly Classroom, Instructional Design, integrated learning, Job search, makerspaces, planning, program design, Project based learning, STEAM

• The Big Ideas in Education and STEAM

    How do we plan for STEAM? We start with the Big Ideas.   Attached is a chart I created to link the Big Ideas in Education with S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math). Big Ideas in Education STEAM This chart is specifically geared toward the Ministry of Ontario curricula that address STEAM subjects, and specifically […]

  Deborah McCallum

  July 28, 2016

  #feedbackfriendly, Big Ideas in Education, makerspaces, STEAM

  #feedbackfriendly, Big Ideas in Education, collaboration, Cross-curricular planning, Deborah McCallum, Feedback Friendly Classroom, innovation, lesson planning, Long Range Planning, Maker spaces, makerspaces, STEAM, STEM, Unit Planning

• 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

  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

• Fill out our Wonder Wall! Promoting Feedback and Inquiry #ontsshg

  Promoting Feedback and Inquiry in the Social Studies, History and Geography classroom. Join us next Thursday February 25 @ 9PM on Twitter: #ontsshg Please take a moment and fill out our Wonder Wall!   //padlet.com/embed/9eudhsqpcubc Created with Padlet

  Deborah McCallum

  February 19, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education

  #onted, feedback, Feedback Friendly Classroom, Inquiry, ontsshg, Social Studies History Geography

• The Formal Assessment of Literacy Skills

  

    There are several key reasons that need to be involved with formally assessing student literacy: First, we can gain key diagnostic information about the current skills that our students have. We also can glean key information about the previous knowledge and experiences of our students through meaningful diagnostic assessments. Second, it provides opportunities for […]

  Deborah McCallum

  November 1, 2015

  Assessment

  6 C’s, assessment, assessment as learning, assessment for learning, Assessment of learning, collaboration, Communication, Deborah McCallum, Feedback Friendly Classroom, Growing success, Literacy, NPDL, Teacher Moderation

• Learning is Complicated: 4 Myths in Education Explained

  

    Education abounds with myths, several of those ‘myths’ are about how the brain works. These myths have a long standing history of being perpetuated, believed, purchased, and shared. As educators we all have our own inquiries and hypotheses of how students learn best, sometimes we do this with a lack of educational research. This […]

  Deborah McCallum

  May 13, 2015

  Big Ideas in Education

  bias, Big Ideas in Education, cognition, cognitive load, Deborah McCallum, digital native, education, Educational Technology, Feedback Friendly Classroom, Figure–ground (perception), information processing, knowledge, Learning, learning styles, neuro-education, neuro-myths, neuroscience, Pedagogy, quality control, self-education, Self-Educators, urban legends