Welcome to chapter 6 of our inquiry book study: Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching can Transform Education Chapter 6: Learn from the Team Guest Blogger: Joanna Sanders Bobiash I am a French Immersion Middle Years Educator and Teacher Librarian in Regina, Saskatchewan. I received my B.Ed. from the University of Regina. I… Continue reading Inquiry Book Study: Week Six
Another weekly post for our Inquiry Book study. You can get to all the posts and comments through this link. Week Five: Uncover the Hidden Game Writer: Sarah MacGregor I am a U of C grad, BGS and soon BEd, specializing in Early Childhood Education. I am passionate about inquiry and enjoy practicing on my… Continue reading Inquiry Book Study: Week Five
Welcome to week four of our inquiry book study – you can access the discussion from the first three weeks here. Week Four: Play Out of Town As vice president for technology and research at the Great Books Foundation, Mark Gillingham plans technology-related infrastructure, marketing, production, and service. Major projects include enterprise applications for web… Continue reading Inquiry Book Study: Week Four
Our inquiry book study has made it to week three! Be sure to check out the conversations still happening on weeks one and two. Thanks to Allison Home for this weeks great blog post – as always – please share your thoughts and comments below! Chapter Three: Work on the Hard Parts Allison Hone is… Continue reading Inquiry Book Study: Week Three
Welcome to week two of our inquiry book study! This week we’re looking at Chapter Two from “Making Learning Whole” by David Perkins. A huge thanks to Yvonne Denomy for being the guest blogger for this week! She’s written an amazing post… For those who missed it, you can listen to last week’s webinar by… Continue reading Inquiry Book Study: Week Two
Welcome to the first post of the CSS Inquiry Book Series! This series is free to open to anyone wanting to join in on our discussion of the book “Making Learning Whole” by David Perkins. You can get the back story on the series here. The format of this series is a new post every… Continue reading Inquiry Book Study: Week One!
The Calgary Science School is starting an Innovation and Education “think tank” discussion series. This initiative is designed to get a range of educational stakeholders together to discuss emerging ideas and possibilities in education, particularly around different technologies and their implication for the classroom. We have planned our first “Innovation in Education” event for Wednesday,… Continue reading Innovation in Education Discussion Series
We’re starting a new program – and a way for you to get involved! The Calgary Science School “Connect Through Books” is an online book discussion series – focusing on books that discuss inquiry-based approaches to learning and teaching. The book study will be conducted through this Calgary Science School Connect! Blog. Starting on February… Continue reading "Connect through books": Inquiry Book Study
One of our staff, Neil Stephenson, is presenting two sessions at the CARC “Leading and Learning” conference. He’s presenting two sessions: (1) Engaging Teaching and Learning at the Calgary Science School and (2) Leading Teacher Change in a Technology Rich School. Here’s the materials being used in the two sessions: Link to the Galileo Inquiry… Continue reading Leading and Learning 2010 Resources
This week, three of our teachers are giving the two morning lectures to 350 first year education students at the University of Calgary. We are sharing the vision we have for inquiry-based learning at the Calgary Science School, and using some of our classroom projects as a way to illustrate how strong inquiry-based work is… Continue reading Resources for MT Year-One Lecture
