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Surrey and Maple Ridge schools moving away from letter grades
“Letter grades will become a thing of the past for many more B.C. students as schools throughout the province are looking at various changes for report cards. Surrey and Maple Ridge are leading the way, with other districts watching closely and the provincial education plan calling for changes that include new tools for reporting and […]
All-girls schools may be more orderly, but they’re no place for a tomboy, Canadian study finds
All-girls schools may be more orderly, but they are also bastions of strict conformity in which non-feminine behaviour is ruthlessly stamped out, according to a Concordia University study that may have implications in the ongoing push for single-sex education in Canadian schools. Read the National Post article here: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/11/all-girls-schools-may-be-more-orderly-but-theyre-no-place-for-a-tomboy-canadian-study-finds/
Classroom crowdsourcing: teachers log on to raise funds for school supplies
“As education budgets grow tighter, teachers across the country are turning to a new crowdsourcing website to purchase school supplies for their students. The website — myclassneeds.ca — was launched just a few months ago, and has since raised thousands of dollars to pay for more than 200 projects in publicly-funded classrooms. After submitting a […]
Schooled: The Flipped Classroom
Interesting Slate podcast on education. “Can watching lectures at home and doing homework in school improve high school learning?” http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/education/2013/12/schooled_podcast_the_flipped_classroom.html
Koerner Research Commons Holiday Hours and December workshops
Research Commons Holiday Hours: Closed from December 14th to January 5th! The Research Commons will be closed for holidays from Saturday December 14th 2013 to Sunday January 5th 2014. This includes workshops, in-person consultation services, and email or phone consultations. Reminder: The upcoming Grad Studies thesis submission deadline is January 3, 2014. If you would […]
Students kept in closed “seclusion rooms” at B.C. schools, says child advocate
Misbehaving special needs students have been kept isolated in closed rooms, a practice that must end, say child advocates. The incidents were revealed in a report issued on Thursday by Inclusion BC and the Family Support Institute, organizations concerned with children’s’ developmental disabilities and special needs. Read full article in The Vancouver Province: http://www.theprovince.com/news/bc/Isolating+special+needs+students+causes+long+lasting+emotional/9195942/story.html
Private school enrollment at Independent Schools Association of B.C. up 4% over last year
Private schools in B.C. bucking trend of declining enrollment Read full article at Metro http://ow.ly/qUSmp
Check out our Remembrance Day Topic Guide
The purpose of this guide is to link teacher candidates and teacher-librarians to young adult and children’s literature, teaching ideas, images, YouTube videos and web resources that will be useful in observing Remembrance Day in BC schools. http://guides.library.ubc.ca/remembranceday Photo credit: Lauren Cathy Turner via Flickr
Koerner Library Research Commons Workshops November 2013
Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean A Lot! Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons staff will help you with your questions about […]
Poetry Please! Presentation and Poetry Workshop
The Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable invites you to a lively and informative morning presentation and workshop with acclaimed BC poets Tiffany Stone and Robert Heidbreder on the myriad ways to engage with children through poetry. In addition, several CWILL BC writers will entertain you with short talks about their recent works—this is a great way […]