President's Report |
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by Bryn M Williams
Welcome back!
This year, there are a lot of opportunities for reflection and change in British Columbia’s educational communities. Many of these opportunities are connected to the concept of personalized learning, 21 st century skills and the collaboration amongst educators in our province. One of the more noticeable aspects are the increased educational use of social media such as twitter, facebook, and the newly developed google +. I have recently embraced Twitter [more...] |
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University of the Fraser Valley ASCD Chapter News |
Diana Duncan, Amanda Pryzner-Dunn and Sandra Garfinkel
Here is the UFV ASCD Chapter Rep presenting our Scholastic Books Rewards points to two Teachers at BC Children's Hospital. [more...] |
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| Learning Theory is for Teachers Too: Why Differentiated Instruction is Good for Us Too |
| by Kevin Sigaty
You begin your lecture. You might periodically check to see if your students understand what you have said at a given time, but mostly you’re looking for that critical mass of students that understand so you can move on; you’re on a deadline after all. You need to finish your lecture, pack up, and get going. You won’t ever know to what degree your students understood the facts of the material, or whether they can apply them in any important way. You came away with some vague impression that most people probably understood some of the points and main concepts, but you don’t have any real way of knowing this. [more...] |
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High School at a Crossroads: Will they become mere certification mills? Or will they redefine themselves?
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by Ed Coughlin
Changes are afoot in society that may redefine the role of schools, especially high schools. The traditional role of high schools as transmitters of content knowledge is already being overtaken by a process that I call information emancipation —the ready availability of knowledge in open-source online environments.
This availability goes beyond encyclopedic resources like Wikipedia. Knowledge is now available in formats that not only provide information, but also package that information and transmit it to learners using technology-based delivery systems that can emulate and even surpass those of our aging education institutions.
This leaves high schools at a crossroads. [more...] |
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CMEC Educators' Forum on Aboriginal Education |
The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada’s (CMEC’s)
Educators’ Forum on Aboriginal Education will bring together a wide
range of stakeholders in Aboriginal education ― from educators and
academics to government officials and representatives of Aboriginal
organizations ― to talk about what works for Aboriginal learners in
early-childhood education (ECE) and K–12 education. Using a case study
format.
Location: University of Winnipeg, Manitoba
When: December 1-3, 2011
Sharing Evidence and Experiences in Aboriginal Early-Childhood and
K–12 Education: Programs, Policies, and Practices for Student
Success [more...] |
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Reflections: Ross Laird BCASCD dinner |
by David Cyr
At a time when the term “Personalized Learning” saturates pedagogical conversation and often stimulates educators to question the path public education is taking in British Columbia, it was wonderful to listen to a philosophical voice of reason on the concept. At the February 17 th dinner meeting our presenter Ross Laird offered up a multitude of technological strategies and tools available to today’s educators and he did it while re-instilling a sense of value in the act of teaching. [more...] |
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