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Understanding By Design

To what degree do essential questions lead students to think critically?

How many of you have worked on developing essential questions (EQs) to guide a unit of study? In developing your essential question(s), how many of you have taken the EQs from your provincial curricula or surfed the internet to look at others EQs to acquire ideas? Okay, so how many of you have found WIDE…

August 31, 2020

Continuous Improvement, Critical Thinking, Teacher Growth, teaching, Uncategorized, Understanding By Design
The Ups And Downs Of Self-Initiated Growth

I ran across this on my Facebook page a week or so ago, and the message really resonated with me. I kept this message in the back of my mind as I met for my second problem-based learning meeting with my colleagues Kevin, and Kelli. I am hoping to add an additional colleague from our…

March 15, 2016

Assessment For, As, and Of Learning, Change, Problem-Based Learning, Student Engagement-Intellectual, Academic, and Social, Teacher Growth, Uncategorized, Understanding By Design