Ontario Extend: Teacher for Learning
Recipients of the Teacher for Learning badge will have explored how we learn and what we can do to ensure learning environments are effective. They have considered strategies for designing significant learning experiences that are grounded in and informed by research principles that foster student learning in specific contexts.
Submitted evidence of:
- Identifying a concept that is often misunderstood in a discipline and created an analogy to help make sense of it
- Creating a concept map of a syllabus for a course
- Practicing note taking skills
- Brainstorming a list of “What’s in it for me?” from a student perspective
- Identifying a concept in a discipline that is like driving a car and specified the component skills that are required to master this concept of skill
- Creating an introductory activity, connected to a discipline, to get to know learners
- Finding a nugget and making it as meaningful as possible
- Articulating a metaphor to describe their teaching philosophy
