Thursday, October 24, 2013
7 Things about Feedback
Educational researcher and leader John Hattie teaches that feedback and metacognition are the two biggest drivers of learning. Those two instructional components are key to assessment for learning. This prezi offers 7 short ideas for educators about feedback. How might these ideas be useful in your classroom context?
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assessment,
big ideas,
critical thinking,
engagement,
feedback,
instructional strategies,
John Hattie,
metacognition,
prezies,
reflection,
risk-taking
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Inquiry Minds Want to Know...
Source (and great resource): What Ed Said Blog |
An inquiry may be...based on a question brought to the classroom by a teacher or student; or it may arise out of an activity, an interesting observation, an unexplained event or a pattern that appears worth pursuing." ~Alberta Education Science Curriculum Front Matter (c) 1996
And speaking of the unexplained...what makes the world's largest volcano invisible?
But is there a format for teaching inquiry? Or a procedure that could be used as an anchor project? Consider using the F.E.R.A. cycle...
F-FOCUS on a topic generating interest and engaging a student's background knowledge.
E-EXPLORE objects, organisms and scientific phenomena that build on that prior knowledge.
R-REFLECT on observations and data, revisit prior ideas and develop or refine explanations.
A-APPLY understanding of science concepts to new situations and prepare to repeat the learning cycle.
-strategy developed by the Smithsonian Science Education Center
P.S. Get your "science fix" here.
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21st Century Competencies,
critical thinking,
engagement,
hooks-holds,
instructional strategies,
learning,
mnemonics,
questioning,
reflection,
Science,
self-efficacy,
teaching
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Math: Three Different Ways
Exploring all techniques, exploring all answers, these Grade 3 math students are problem-solving without anxiety in an inclusive learning environment. Cool.
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21st Century Competencies,
critical thinking,
differentiation,
inclusive education,
innovation,
instructional strategies,
learning,
Math strategies,
risk-taking,
self-efficacy,
teaching,
video
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