The Six Facets of Understanding
Extracted from: Understanding by Design (2005) from Wiggins & McThigh “The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own...
Reflecting on Student Learning in Chemistry
Chris Binge and the Impact team are leading the way to introduce reflective skills-based education at Markham College. Under the...
Teach Like a Champion 2.0
Teach Like A Champion 2.0 by Doug Lemov is a practical teaching book. Unlike many others that go into detail on the theory of education...
What do we mean by Objective Driven Teaching?
When planning lessons it is easy to think "What activity shall I get the students to do?" or even "I have this wonderful activity, let's...
Making use of my Big Whiteboards
One of the Principles of Great Teaching that I have chosen to focus on this year is Checking for Understanding. This is something that I...
Content, Concepts and Skills
The IB has a focus on conceptual understanding (it is one of their Approaches to Teaching) but also recognises the importance of...
Successes and Targets
I recently saw this tweet and it made me stop and reflect on what my successes were for this year, and what I want to work on next year....
Test-Enhanced Learning
Article: Test-Enhanced Learning Author: Henry L. Roediger III and Jeffrey D. Karpicke Article Reading Time: 20 minutes Summary This...
Cognitive Load for a Stressed out Teacher
I remember some time ago, when Dan was trying to get us thinking about the Cognitive Workload idea. Now it is one of the Collaborative...
Exploring a Different Working Space in the Maths Classroom
Several members of the Maths department requested to have extra whiteboard space installed in their classrooms over the July holiday. In...