Article Archive for November 2011
Cyberconférence : 5 à 7 pédagogique

L’idée est venue lors d’une rencontre en salle de classe de Rosemère High School en décembre 2010. Le président de l’AQEFLS, Marc-Albert Paquette et moi-même discutions des possibilités de partenariat entre nos deux organismes respectifs …
Telling it Like it Is, Part II: Action Research and Data Collection

In my previous post on Action Research in the classroom, I wrote about the idea of action research as a form of self-directed professional learning. I think that we learn to be better teachers by …
New look, new ideas

by Michael Canuel
The LEARN logo. The start to the 2011-12 school year was heralded by a new logo for LEARN. The new look is fresh, simple, yet wonderfully expressive and meaningful. The tree of knowledge with …
You are not your mark

After a few weeks of flipping, and having time to actually talk to my students and listen to them, I now realize how much I’ve been missing all these years. I used to give tests, mark …
A Critical Conversation About Literacy: The Start of My Literacy Life

by Melanie Stonebanks
This blog post is the first in a series of three looking into the world of Critical Literacy; an instructional approach that encourages readers to actively analyze what they are reading in order …
An Evening of “Passion” with Sir Ken Robinson

A few weeks ago, we two brave LEARNers ventured into the wilds of Barrhaven (an Ottawa suburb fondly referred to as “Barbeque Haven”), during a rainstorm, in rush hour traffic, to participate in a leadership …