Tag: Learning

• 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 […]

  Deborah McCallum

  December 30, 2016

  professional development

  Big Ideas in Education, Learning, Learning Culture, Learning Transfer, professional development, teaching, Training, Training Evaluation

• Learn something new each day!

  

  Learn something new everyday. That is how the old adage goes. But how many of us are actually learning something new each day? Learning something new is uncomfortable. It is a process that cannot be isolated to one day. How many of us are actually learning new things, versus evolving and reinforcing what we already […]

  Deborah McCallum

  October 9, 2016

  Learning

  Learning

• Feedback & Inquiry Twitter Chat Part II

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

  Deborah McCallum

  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

• Critical Literacy

  Our students need us more than ever. Society needs us more than ever. Educators are key to teaching critical literacy. We want our students to think critically about the world around them. We want them to think critically about all information shared through media, and make sure that the information is bias free. Particularly when […]

  Deborah McCallum

  March 12, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, critical literacy

  Big Ideas in Education, cloaked websites, critical literacy, critical thinking, education, internet, Learning, Teacher-Librarians

• The Underlying Stories we tell in Education

  There are underlying stories that come to life when we look at what we teach and why we teach it. We as educators choose who will speak, what information will be highlighted, how the curriculum will come to life. We essentially choose what underlying stories we will tell when we choose whose voices will prevail.  […]

  Deborah McCallum

  February 21, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education

  Anti-oppressive education, Big Ideas in Education, curriculum, Inclusion, Learning, Normalized teaching, Privilege and oppression, Storytelling, teaching

• 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

• In support of Libraries for Academic Success & Equity

  

  Libraries are essential in building academic success and equity in our schools and learning environments. This is very easy when staff and students come from similar backgrounds and share similar languages, experiences and expectations. But what about the ‘others’? The one’s who do not share similar experiences, expectations, languages, and backgrounds? First, what does it […]

  Deborah McCallum

  February 7, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, Library

  academic success, assimilation, citizenship, curriculum, dominant culture, dominant power structures, Equity, Flexible spaces, Historic injustices, Instructional Strategies, Learning, Librarianship, Library, makerspaces, Privilege and oppression, Resource acquisition, Teacher-Librarian, teaching, welcoming environments

• Innovation for New Pedagogies and Education Spaces

  

  I have been thinking a lot lately about the deeper ‘why’ behind the need for innovation in education. The deeper WHY behind the need for new spaces and also new initiatives including, but not limited to, makerspaces and genius hour. While I have led initiatives like these before, and believe in them, I wanted to […]

  Deborah McCallum

  January 29, 2016

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education

  Big Ideas in Education, education, Equity, FNMI, FNMI students, genius hour, innovation, Learning, makerspaces, new spaces for learning, oppression in education, social justice in education, spaces, teaching