To help us work towards our school goal of improving our understanding and practice of assessment, my principal has provided our staff with a copy of Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing it Right – Using it Well, by Jan Chappuis, Rick Stiggins, Steve Chappuis, and Judith Arter. As I make my way through the book, I will be summarizing my learning as a means of organizing my thoughts and getting clarification on particular ideas. Classroom Assessment for Student Learning Cover. (Accessed 2016). Uploaded to Amazon; Pearson Education. Available online at: https://www.amazon.ca/Classroom-Assessment-Student-Learning-Doing/dp/0132685884 Chapter 3 – Clear Targets *learning targets are statements of the intended… Read More
Classroom Assessment Chapter 2
To help us work towards our school goal of improving our understanding and practice of assessment, my principal has provided our staff with a copy of Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing it Right – Using it Well, by Jan Chappuis, Rick Stiggins, Steve Chappuis, and Judith Arter. As I make my way through the book, I will be summarizing my learning as a means of organizing my thoughts and getting clarification on particular ideas. Classroom Assessment for Student Learning Cover. (Accessed 2016). Uploaded to Amazon; Pearson Education. Available online at: https://www.amazon.ca/Classroom-Assessment-Student-Learning-Doing/dp/0132685884 Chapter 2 – Assessment for and of Learning Impact of Formative Assessment… Read More
Classroom Assessment Chapter 1
To help us work towards our school goal of improving our understanding and practice of assessment, my principal has provided our staff with a copy of Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing it Right – Using it Well, by Jan Chappuis, Rick Stiggins, Steve Chappuis, and Judith Arter. As I make my way through the book, I will be summarizing my learning as a means of organizing my thoughts and getting clarification on particular ideas. Classroom Assessment for Student Learning Cover. (Accessed 2016). Uploaded to Amazon; Pearson Education. Available online at: https://www.amazon.ca/Classroom-Assessment-Student-Learning-Doing/dp/0132685884 Chapter 1 – Every Student a Learner Classroom Assessment Literacy The… Read More
Summer Reading
Summer is right around the corner and that means its time for summer reading. professional and otherwise. Our school is awesome about being quite focused when it comes to the professional development of our staff. You might remember the book study I completed last summer on Dr. Jennifer Katz‘s book, Teaching to Diversity: The Three-Block Model of Universal Design for Learning. Teaching to Diversity Cover. (Accessed 2014). Uploaded to Amazon; Portage& Main Press.Available online at: http://www.amazon.ca/Teaching-Diversity-Three-Block-Universal-Learning/dp/1553793536 You can read my posts on this book by exploring the UDL blog hashtag. This summer I will be exploring, Classroom Assessment for… Read More
The Role of the Mentor – Reflective Blogging Part 6
This post is part of the Reflective Teaching Blogging Challenge hosted by Terry at Te@ch Thought. While the original challenge is a year-old already I thought it would be the perfect thing to keep me on track over the next little while. DAY 6 – Explain: What does a good mentor do? I’m glad that this question was included as part of the challenge because I often say that I am trying to create a classroom that sees “teacher as mentor” as opposed to “teacher as expert”… but what does that really mean? To me, a good mentor is someone who: –… Read More
#TRSD32 is on Twitter!
On Monday, September 28th, our division brought in George Couros for our fall-time PD. George is an influential educator, speaker, consultant, blogger, tweeter, overall awesome guy and I am SO disappointed that I missed an opportunity to hear him speak to our teachers. In theory, I probably could have attended with Jaxson if I wanted to, but we also had an out-of-town doctor’s appointment on that day as well so it was not meant to be. One of the activities that George had our teacher’s participate in was joining Twitter! Yay! As someone who has been… Read More
My Former Classroom – Reflective Blogging Part 5
This post is part of the Reflective Teaching Blogging Challenge hosted by Terry at Te@ch Thought. While the original challenge is a year-old already I thought it would be the perfect thing to keep me on track over the next little while.DAY 5 – Post a picture of your classroom and describe what you see — and what you don’t see that you’d like to. When I initially started this post I went back to my previous classroom reveal posts from 2014 and 2013; thinking that I would critique the classrooms that I helped create for my students in the past.… Read More
What Teachers Make – Reflective Blogging Part 4
This post is part of the Reflective Teaching Blogging Challenge hosted by Terry at Te@ch Thought. While the original challenge is a year-old already I thought it would be the perfect thing to keep me on track over the next little while.DAY 4 – Respond: What do you love the most about teaching? This is something that is hard for me to accurately put into words because there isn’t just one singular aspect of teaching that I love the most. In fact, there isn’t even a handful of aspects that I love the most. Teaching is one of those professions that… Read More
Reflective Blogging Part 3
This post is part of the Reflective Teaching Blogging Challenge hosted by Terry at Te@ch Thought. While the original challenge is a year-old already I thought it would be the perfect thing to keep me on track over the next little while. DAY 3 – Discuss one “observation” area that you would like to improve on for your teacher evaluation. One area that I really want to improve in my classroom is fostering a learning environment where students are taking on more responsibility for their own learning. While this is something that I am conscious of and am trying to incorporate… Read More
Blogging in the Social Studies Classroom – Reflective Blogging Part 2
This post is part of the Reflective Teaching Blogging Challenge hosted by Terry at Te@ch Thought. While the original challenge is a year-old already I thought it would be the perfect thing to keep me on track over the next little while. DAY 2 – Write about one piece of technology that you would like to try this year and why. You might also write about what you are hoping to see out of this edtech integration. Since I am away on mat leave I can’t actually write about a piece of technology that I will be implementing this year… Read More