Education ~ with a different approach.

Comprehensive approach to Assessment  Students often have high-stress and difficulty with completing unorganized summative assessments. It is important to deliver proper assessment to students in means of explicit expectations and guided inquiry. Rich Performance Assessment Task's (RPAT's) often converge various skill sets that students develop alongside the compulsory subject-based curriculum. The figure below indicates an example of a commonly created rubric that some teachers use for Language and/or a translated version for French oral curriculum expectations. The key components of the rubric are the criteria focused around the RPAT topic. However, usually the criteria should be generalized align with the overall curriculum expectation. In contrast, if the rubric criterion becomes too specific, teachers tend to stray students away from the importance of inquiry. Alignment between assessment and curricular expectations is essential to develop student learning in metaco...

Canadian Context into Bilingualism As of late, Canada has been taking into account the importance of Indigenous education. With such an important topic finally being regarded, it should not be surprising to Canadians that there is a large  shift toward integrating Aboriginal education. With the advancement into building curricular content around Aboriginal teachings, history, philosophies and contexts, educators may find it difficult to take on this new approach. There is such a transformative development in terms of what teachers should know about Aboriginal content - and yes, there is a lot! But this should not deter educators from taking on the significant topic.  The Census of Population from Stats Can (2011) highlights linguistic statistics for Canadians. They publish that official bilingualism rates climbed steadily over recent years. However, the predominantly French-speaking province Quebec has been seeing trends in declining bilingualism. But there have been ...