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More than Math : ATA's position on curriculum reform
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My research and insights into the growing flux and flow of education in Alberta. Saturday, 15 March 2014. ATA's position on curriculum reform. What Alberta’s teachers believe about curriculum and curriculum reform. A document from the Alberta Teacher's Association). I highlighted my favorite points:. We believe that curriculum is about what should be learned. Currently, Alberta is engaged in a process that will identify what knowledge, skills and attitudes students. Subject area and grade level. The broa...
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More than Math : Grade 10 Teachers - the buzz-kill
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My research and insights into the growing flux and flow of education in Alberta. Wednesday, 25 November 2015. Grade 10 Teachers - the buzz-kill. To the grade 10 math teacher. You are the buzz-kill. You are the transition from junior high to high school and are often “the bad guy/girl”. You set the tone for high school onward into university.and sometimes you’re not fun. Many of us have heard the grade 10 comments that drive their teacher to frustration:. 8220;Can you give me a crash-course in this unit?
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More than Math : December 2014
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My research and insights into the growing flux and flow of education in Alberta. Tuesday, 30 December 2014. Grade 10 Math. Why so tough? High School Math continues to be a growing struggle for all parties . For some students, it is a maturity piece where they simply need to be an active member of their learning. For others, it becomes a focus on skills. Below are the key reasons for lack of success in Grade 10 math at the present. There is value is failure. Ask a student to evaluate (-4). 3" The lack of ...
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More than Math : November 2015
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My research and insights into the growing flux and flow of education in Alberta. Wednesday, 25 November 2015. Grade 10 Teachers - the buzz-kill. To the grade 10 math teacher. You are the buzz-kill. You are the transition from junior high to high school and are often “the bad guy/girl”. You set the tone for high school onward into university.and sometimes you’re not fun. Many of us have heard the grade 10 comments that drive their teacher to frustration:. 8220;Can you give me a crash-course in this unit?
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More than Math : October 2014
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My research and insights into the growing flux and flow of education in Alberta. Thursday, 23 October 2014. The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.". This is the result of fields which offer explanations through a process of inductive logic and speculation. It is fair to assume that most people agree there ...
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More than Math : Be less helpful: Effective Questioning in Math Class
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My research and insights into the growing flux and flow of education in Alberta. Sunday, 14 December 2014. Be less helpful: Effective Questioning in Math Class. You finish your lesson and your class of 35 students busily gets to work (or so is the dream). Regardless, students are practicing, and Emily's hand goes up. You walk over to her desk and she utters the infamous words you love to here:. I don't get it.". 1 Answer this question only. 2 Help answer this question and potentially many after it. Despi...
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More than Math : Grade 10 Math. Why so tough?
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My research and insights into the growing flux and flow of education in Alberta. Tuesday, 30 December 2014. Grade 10 Math. Why so tough? High School Math continues to be a growing struggle for all parties . For some students, it is a maturity piece where they simply need to be an active member of their learning. For others, it becomes a focus on skills. Below are the key reasons for lack of success in Grade 10 math at the present. There is value is failure. Ask a student to evaluate (-4). 3" The lack of ...
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More than Math : February 2014
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My research and insights into the growing flux and flow of education in Alberta. Friday, 28 February 2014. 7 - Best Math Practices. Would you mark a student wrong for their spelling on a test? Clearly that is an open-ended question and in an English/L.A. class, probably. Well - what if this was a math test and student was asked to explain how to add fractions? Would you still deduct marks for spelling denominator incorrectly? If the outcome is to add fractions). I'm going to make a bold statement:. In my...
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More than Math : 11 - Industry Partners
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My research and insights into the growing flux and flow of education in Alberta. Thursday, 13 March 2014. 11 - Industry Partners. First, the partners involved in the curriculum prototyping don't actually write the final curriculum. Okay, Should oil and gas have a say in what our students need to know? Considering the scope of the industry and how many of Alberta's students go into the trades.p. Is an office executive the best person to say what skills are needed in the oil patch? Here at the Alberta Coun...
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