Parent Teacher Conference Agenda
Duration: 10-15 minutes A Few Words About the Progress Report -the Province of Ontario has a “progress report” to give …
Category Archives: Sharing Great Practices
Inviting a teaching colleague’s feedback
Improving one’s professional practice requires reflection and change. Teachers can carry out some of this on their own, but most …
Writing to improve reading
Steve Graham and Michael Hebert’s 2010 research paper identifies three main practices that strengthen students’ reading skills through writing. They are: …
Building Vocabulary up from “NO!”-Part 2
Judith emailed me today with some more good news about Samir. Samir started the year with just one word: NO. …
Building a Vocabulary up from, “NO!”
Judith has several challenging children in her kindergarten class. One smart little boy, Evan, is in constant motion and spends …
Examples of Best-Practices Used in TDSB classrooms
Assessment For and As Learning Bansho Comprehensive Literacy Descriptive Feedback Differentiated Instruction Gallery Walk Guided Practice Inquiry-based Learning Learning Based …
Practices to encourage higher-order thinking in your classroom
Example Example Acknowledging failure as essential to learning Identifying premises, conditions and/or constraints Comparing and contrasting Identifying …
