pedagogy, lesson plans and teacher resources
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Third Party Student Report Cards For Private Schools: GRIS Case Study Third party student report cards not only benefit parents and educators, but increase retention rates and improve the reputations of private schools. Read more… |
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Meaningful Ways to Recognize Mother’s Day Discover how Mother’s Day can be a learning opportunity and be more meaningful for students. Read more… |
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Diversity Series: The Practice of Debate in Pursuit of Diversity Think debate isn’t relevant? As part of Dialogue’s Diversity Series, we look at the value of teaching and learning debate in today’s curriculum. Read more… |
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What the Neuroeducation Revolution Means for Private Schools What are the keys to a child’s growth, learning and development? Kelly Farrell, Star Academy teacher and Dialogue Online columnist, reflects on the lessons from the Brain Power conference. Read more… |
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Diversity Series: Cultural Interdependence and the Media John Sweetman discusses the positive and negative impacts of contemporary mass media and how it can be challenged in the classroom. Read more… |
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Make Mental Health Awareness Part of Your School’s Curriculum With our responsibility of supporting students to reach their full potential, here are ways schools can adopt programs to promote mental health. Read more… |
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Diversity Series: Learning Styles and Differentiation Need some tips on how to approach different ways of learning in your classroom? Try these methods of teaching for your individual students needs and learning styles. Read more… |
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Moral Education: Teaching Religion to a Faith-Diverse Student Body Northmount School’s Manfred J. von Vulte’s reveals what makes a religious program successful for a homogeneous group of believers or a collective group of eager yet diverse minds. Read more… |
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For Student Success, Schools Must Look Below the Surface We can transform education when we recognize that the breadth and depth of our truest diversities are invisible, says Robert Gardner in his unique take on the value of aptitudinal diversity. Read more… |
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How to Create a Successful Gay-Straight Alliance Garth Nichols and Elanna Robson look at how Greenwood College School moved from tolerance to acceptance in supporting and understanding LGBTQ students. Read more… |
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Open House Discussion: How Can Schools Be Diverse and Inclusive? In every edition of Dialogue magazine, we ask a question to spark dialogue among the independent school and education community about the issue’s theme. A selection of the replies is published below. You are welcome to continue the discussion in the Comments section. Identifying ‘Water’ and ‘Sunlight’ to Become an Educational Rainforest “In nature, diversity [...] |
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Live-Blog Archive: Neuroeducation Revolution—Brain Power Initiative Conference A revolution in childhood development is here. Thinking about how neuroscience or neuroeducation can help you train your students’ brain so you can teach them to learn better, smarter and faster? If you answered yes, then you’ll want to watch our tweets (see the live Twitter feed below or check out @ourkidsnet and the hash tags #brainpower and #ourkids) and Facebook page over the next two days. Read more… |
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Ways to Train the Teenage Brain to Drive Safer Young Drivers of Canada has worked with teens for over forty years to train them to be safe drivers. Here are some quick tips to train your students brains to drive safer. Read more… |
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How to Write a Good Report Card Need some tips for writing a report card or not sure what to review? Here are six key elements to consider for good report cards. Read more… |
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How to Challenge Students to Go Screen Free in Eight Easy Steps Star Academy teacher, Kelly Farrell, shares eight simple steps to help motivate students to turn off their screens for Screen Free Week. Read more… |
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Five Easy Ways to Reduce Students’ Consumerism Looking for new ways to get your students interested in reducing and reusing? Check out these five simple ways to help students consume less. Read more… |
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How Can Schools Achieve Teaching Excellence? In Jamie Feild Baker’s column, Teaching Excellence, learn why developing a culture of inquiry is key to the sustainability and renewal of the future. Read more… |
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Raising Environmental Awareness through Teaching Environmental Awareness Do you teach environmental awareness in your classroom? Need some new ideas? In this article, Kelly Farrell suggests some different ideas and provides resources to teach students the importance of environmental awareness. Read more… |
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Kony 2012: Controversial Messengers on Ugandan Warlord Deserve the Hype While the “Stop Kony” campaign has drawn both support and criticism, discussions have also been raised regarding the messengers of the film and the fame of the film’s director, Jason Russell. Read more… |
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Earth Week: 5 Elemental Lessons for a Green Generation Today’s youth suffer from this modern ailment: nature-deficit disorder. On Earth Day (April 22) and throughout the year, teach students to appreciate the environment with some of the best ideas, activities and resources. Read more… |
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How to Get Students Involved as Volunteers It’s not only about grades. Compassion, kindness and responsibility must be nurtured at school. Find out how you can help students change lives—including their own. Read more… |
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Mandatory Co-Curricular Program Helps HTS Students Succeed How can students gain confidence, develop new skills and excel outside the classroom? In this School Spotlight Q&A, Barry Hughes, head of HTS, reveals why schools need to make extracurricular activities a requirement. Read more… |
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Teaching Boys Industrial Arts: Is the Future at Hand? In Raising Boys of Honour, Manfred von Vulte, deputy headmaster of Northmount School, delves into poignant and challenging discussions on teaching and mentoring young men in the journey toward manhood. There comes a time in every rightly-constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. – The Adventures of [...] |
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How Teacher Evaluations Can Attract, Develop and Inspire Faculty From England to Montreal, the process of evaluating teachers is getting a hard look around the world. Learn effective ways to positively transform and motivate your staff and school. Read more… |
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Outside the Classroom, Building Community and School Spirit In her new column, Loving Learning, Kelly Farrell explains how events that bring the whole school together can help students soar to new heights. Read more… |
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Why Open Office Is a Good Alternative to Pricey Software With budgets tightening for IT, the affordability of software has become even more of a concern for schools and students. There is a workable alternative: Open Office. Read more… |
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Call for Open House Responses: How Can Schools Be Diverse and Inclusive? In every edition of Dialogue magazine we ask a question to spark dialogue about the issue’s theme, and publish the replies in the print magazine or website. This year’s Open House question is: How can schools be diverse and inclusive? Read more… |
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Open Education: 8 Free Open Source Tools for Every Classroom This year many around the world experienced the very first “Open Education Week,” raising awareness about the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning. Here are tools that every school should have if they want to go open. Read more… |
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On International Women’s Day, Schools Can Make a Difference March 8 is an international celebration to help build awareness about the importance of advocating equal rights for women. Here are some ideas for celebrating International Women’s Day in your school. Read more… |
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Expert Q&A | Anne-Marie Mediwake CBC News anchor Anne-Marie Mediwake shares her thoughts with Dialogue Online about what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future. Read more… |
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Schools Should Have Open Policy With Technology Restricting access to technology hinders the development of 21st-century skills and makes learning outdated. Do we need more freedom in our classrooms? Read more… |
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How Black History Month Can Be a Powerful Teaching Opportunity To have students honestly ask the question: “Why do we celebrate Black History Month?” is in and of itself a great exercise in historical thinking. Here’s how it can be a powerful way to focus on the History and Geography curriculum, develop school and community values, and get students connected with their own history. Read more… |
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What’s Thwarting Online Learning in Schools? A new Canadian study demonstrates that, with the exception of British Columbia, the spread of online learning and virtual schools has stalled. Find out why. |
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Backward Design: An Education for Understanding Backward Design involves looking at the end results and designing curriculum to ensure students UNDERSTAND and not just KNOW. Modify your curriculum planning and help each student achieve greater success. |
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Maria Montessori: A Hero for Educators and the Most Important Woman in History Only now is modern science coming to terms with Maria Montessori’s findings. The tragedy is that so much of what she saw so clearly has been forgotten and, continually, has to be rediscovered. Read More… |
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For Busy Educators, It’s Worth the Time to Find the Treasure in Twitter Are you in the field of education? If so, are you on Twitter yet? Recognizing that Twitter use is not yet widespread in education, I hope to convince you to consider it. |
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Apple and Digital Textbooks: A K-12 Educational Revolution? Educators should be inspired by the new e-publishing world being opened up by Apple and be prepared to take creative advantage of Apple’s new tools. But they should be very aware of the pitfalls that may entrap them if they don’t think before they innovate. |
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What Motivates Students to Learn and Succeed at School? Gifts, incentives and the constant affirmation of “you’re great!” can actually kill the desire to accomplish great things. The Country Day School’s Karen Sumner explores the research. |
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The Country Day School’s Magazine Feeds a Growing Mind How can we support the growth of children? The Country Day School has introduced The Growing Mind magazine to ensure educators and parents have the best information they have about student learning. |
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A Look Ahead to the Educational IT Challenges for 2012 Changes for the major IT companies, the different needs of high school and elementary school instruction, and the growing ubiquity of smartphone and social media use will all provide students and teachers with special challenges in 2012. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Laptop Basics It’s a new year and your school has embarked on a new program to integrate IT into the classroom. To do this, every teacher has been given a brand new, shiny laptop. Now what? Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice in his latest column. |
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The Year 2011 in Education: A Chequered Pattern, Looking in the Mirror What stands out in the national educational landscape? Paul W. Bennett’s list of the best and worst of 2011 in education offers a few surprises. |
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Dialogue Online’s 10 Most Popular Posts of 2011 It’s a brand new year and we’re excited to share more of your insights and ideas on Dialogue Online. Here are the top 10 posts from the past year. |
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Science Fiction Passes the Torch of Innovation to a New Generation Whether it was H.G. Wells taking us on a ride in The Time Machine or Isaac Asimov unveiling the secrets of robotics in I, Robot, children have always been fascinated with science fiction. Manfred J. von Vulte explains how science fiction, above all, might be the key to our future. |
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Cairo Diaries: ‘My Hayah’ Gives Power to the Students After the revolution in Egypt, Atif Hussain seized an opportunity to give students a chance to take ownership of their learning in a way not done before. Read more in his debut column, the Cairo Diaries. |
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The Five Educational Legacies of Steve Jobs Steve Jobs is one of the few people who can rightfully be said to have created a new world. Here are ways he changed the means of teaching forever and how we can live up to that legacy. |
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Dialogue Online Weekly News Roundup Dialogue Online provides the education headlines, links and web resources you should know. Learn the seven deadly sins of creativity, why some want to ban Wi-Fi from schools, and why educators should “cut the excuses and lead” in technology transformation. |
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Appointments: Elizabeth Moore Taps Into ISABC’s Strengths of Collaboration and Openness From South Africa to B.C., she has been an education leader in diverse environments with the mission of strengthening schools. Meet Elizabeth Moore, the new executive director of the Independent Schools Association of British Columbia (ISABC). |
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Bayview Glen Brings Learning to Life With TechnoCup Challenge Find out how Bayview Glen’s applied technology challenge for Grade 7 students takes science and math to the next level. |
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Amid the Rough World of High School, A Bullied ‘Diamond in the Rough’ Finds His Voice Conventional school works for many. It doesn’t work for all. Lucky for Philippe de Jocas, he found an alternative school that fit. Here is what educators can learn from his story. |
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Dialogue Online Weekly News Roundup Dialogue Online provides the education headlines, links and web resources you should know. Find out why zero-tolerance policies may be damaging, what educators are doing about the bullying and teen mental health crises, and the role of digital education as a divider or equalizer. |
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How Occupy Toronto Is Occupying My Students A Canadian History teacher finds an authentic way to bring history to life and show students that issues of the past continue to exist and persist today through the Occupy movement. |
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Where Do We Draw the Line With Technology in Math Education? When it comes to debating whether students should do mathematics by hand or by computer, we forget that we have used mathematics in many other technologies over the years, and that each of these technologies had their advantages and disadvantages, writes educator David Wees. |
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Dialogue Online Weekly News Roundup Dialogue Online provides the education headlines, links and web resources you should know. This week, a new education model focused on students’ well-being, teaching “good sex” in schools, and ideas and inspiration for teachers. |
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Remembrance Day: Teaching Students … to Never Forget They were unlikely friends who formed a bond the first time they met and made this agreement: “I’ll teach you how to pray if you teach me how to pray.” Watch the video and read the Q&A to find out the significance of Remembrance Day for Maj. Joseph Nonato, a teacher who served as a soldier in Afghanistan. |
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The Maria Montessori No One Knows: ‘Enemy Alien’ in India (Part 2 of 2) In the last article of this two-part series, educational consultant Robert Gardner explores how Maria Montessori’s experiences as an “enemy alien” in India during World War II led to her enlightenment in childhood language development. |
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Appointments: Jan Campbell, on 21st-Century Learning Mission, Takes Helm at CIS She has her sights set on 21st-century learning and revitalizing one of the independent school community’s highly respected groups. Meet Jan Campbell, the new executive director of the Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario (CIS Ontario). Read more in Dialogue Online’s new column on news about staff in the independent school community. |
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How EQ Is Key to Mental Health and Student Success What defines a student’s experience at school? Manfred J. von Vulte, deputy headmaster of Northmount School, reveals the factors to fostering a healthy school community beyond academics and IQ. |
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Dialogue Online Weekly News Roundup Dialogue Online provides the education headlines, links and web resources you should know. This week, the homework debate, schools walk the talk on mental health, and lessons on co-teaching and inclusion. |
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