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Best BITs: Preventing discrimination in schools
This week I’ve been focused on the overall message when reading pages 98 to 113 about how discrimination is embedded in the structures of our schools. I feel very protective of public education and how it needs to be accessible to all who attend. Specifically, authors Zac Chase and Chris Lehmann highlight the barriers to…
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Best BITs: Wrestling with math in School 2.0
I wrestle with math. There was a time when I was almost deemed gifted in math in grade 7 and then my grade 8 teacher proposed the concept of integers and it just blew my mind apart. Later in grade 10 there was that time when I skipped math 23 times and obviously missed a…
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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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