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Janine Schaub

Category Archives: Sharing Great Practices

Examples of teachers demonstrating best practice, inspirational practice and great ideas for making classrooms vibrant and exciting places to learn.

Parent Teacher Conference Agenda

October 26, 2014

Duration: 10-15 minutes A Few Words About the Progress Report -the Province of Ontario has a “progress report” to give …

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Inviting a teaching colleague’s feedback

December 6, 2013

Improving one’s professional practice requires reflection and change. Teachers can carry out some of this on their own, but most …

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Writing to improve reading

March 21, 2012

Steve Graham and Michael Hebert’s 2010 research paper identifies three main practices that strengthen students’ reading skills through writing. They are: …

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Building Vocabulary up from “NO!”-Part 2

January 28, 2012

Judith emailed me today with some more good news about Samir. Samir started the year with just one word: NO. …

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Building a Vocabulary up from, “NO!”

January 27, 2012

Judith has several challenging children in her kindergarten class. One smart little boy, Evan, is in constant motion and spends …

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Examples of Best-Practices Used in TDSB classrooms

January 4, 2012

Assessment For and As Learning Bansho Comprehensive Literacy Descriptive Feedback Differentiated Instruction Gallery Walk Guided Practice Inquiry-based Learning Learning Based …

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Practices to encourage higher-order thinking in your classroom

January 4, 2012

 Example  Example  Acknowledging failure as essential to learning   Identifying premises, conditions and/or constraints     Comparing and contrasting   Identifying …

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