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Best BITs: What should school look like?
Zac Chase and Chris Lehmann ask us: What do you think school should be doing? What is the role of school in the modern world? What does success look like? Leah Kearney, Kristy Luker and I took these questions apart a bit. Here’s how it went: LEAH: I posed this very question to my Faculty of…
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Best BITS: What are your learning rules?
Author Benedict Carey made this quick video to summarize some the findings he uncovered when writing his book “How We Learn”. Benedict Carey: unlearn everything you’ve learned about learning from frank on Vimeo. As a teacher and/or as a parent, what are some of the learning structures you put in place? Are there methods you…
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Best BITs: Admiring administrators
What are the 3 qualities you admire most in your favourite school administrator ever? Here’s what our group inside TeachOntario said: “…openness, approachability, and excellent communication skills, an understanding of academic subjects, a belief in trauma-informed classrooms, and a positive, trusting attitude towards their teachers. I have had Principals whom I knew “had my back,”…
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Best BITs: Consistency not change, limits learning
Contrary to everything that I was ever taught about learning, author Benedict Carey claims that consistency not change, limits learning. Here’s a quick video to get you started: So if that’s true then of course I’m wondering now how does using more technology in the classroom affect learning? It’s the ultimate distraction isn’t it? What…
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Best BITs: Would you rather…
#BIT16Reads asks participants in the How We Learn by Benedict Carey book club: Would you say that you’d rather be a grade 9 student in the year 2016 or would you rather be a grade 9 student in the year that you were actually in grade 9….and why? Here are some of the more interesting…
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Best BITs: The role of the teacher
In secondary school we often see teachers as subject specialists. In elementary school we see teachers as generalists but facilitating many activities that cross subject boundaries. Authors Garfield Gini-Newman and Roland Case outline 3 contrasting foundational beliefs about teaching and learning, and the role of the teacher is listed in the discovery, didactic and thinking…
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