The following post was written by Peter Douglas and it is posted on our website…we’ve been working together on inquiry-based teaching and learning. His classroom is our workshop! You can learn about our experience at Inquiry-Based.com.… More
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June Exams: Assessment or Rite of Passage?
I don’t know about you, but I am in the thick of exams. At the Senior Years level, we have been using exams as a huge summative assessment piece intended to perhaps supply a bookend to the year and establish some sort of “rigour” within the learning process.… More
Critical thinking about supporting creativity
There seems to be a shift in education conversations – from a focus on literacy and numeracy to innovation and creativity. This dialogue is not only in Ontario, but across many borders. … More
What Your Rules Say About You
voicEd.ca has invited Canadian bloggers writing about education to post their “best” entry of 2012. This may a piece of writing to which they feel particularly attached, something that received some good response, or an entry that got others thinking in a different way.… More
An Attachment to our Traditions
With advancements in technology, literacy has started to move away from explaining the visual in words toward a stronger connection between the texts and the visual as well as the audio and spatial needs of the reader. … More
