So, we’ve decided to write a book. A small summer project to warm-up with before heading back into the classroom in September. Of course, this is a great opportunity to try out some visual thinking software to help us with our prewriting. We have a huge list of software and educational technologies that we wanted […]
Classroom Education Technology: Blackboards, Projectors, SMART Boards
Even though it’s summer vacation in Ontario, we’re still thinking about ways to integrate technology into the classroom. In fact, we’re considering investing in a SMART board, so we spent some time reflecting on the pros and cons of some of the educational technologies to help us teach in the classroom. From low-tech to high-tech, […]
Classroom Technology Wish List: 101 Ways to Bring Tech into your Class
Classroom Technology Wish List ARTICLE UPDATE: This was intended to be a living document but classroom technology changes. Quickly. This list was originally published in August 2008, with a few updates here and there. (Last updated on June 29, 2019.) How do you use Classroom Technology in your program? Leave a comment below. Sure, it’s […]
Professional Learning Communities – Setting Common Literacy Goals to align subject-specific classes
Many Intermediate classrooms (Gr 7-8) operate under a rotary timetable where students move to different teachers for different classes. Often times, each teacher operates their classroom as an island. Professional Learning Communities can help a fragmented Intermediate division to align themselves with respect to school and board literacy goals. The Ontario Language curriculum compliments the […]
Running Records and Miscue Analysis at the Intermediate Level
“If there is one single task that stands up better than any other observation task, it is the running record of text reading. This is a neutral observation task, capable of use in any system of reading, and recording progress on whatever gradient of text difficulty has been adopted by the education system.” (M. Clay, […]
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