As we start up our new initiative, this blog will serve a number of purposes:
1. As a place to share the classroom projects, assignments and assessment practices of the Calgary Science School
2. As a place where CSS teachers and administrators can publicly reflect and engage in dialogue on their practice
3. As a place where CSS can build a learning network outside the walls of our school.
We want to collaborate with and learn from other teaching professionals, around the city, province, country and around the world.
A group of progressive educators at the Educon conference discussed other qualities that successful future citizens will need and that a good education should offer. A successful student should be able to manage massive amounts of information, a crucial skill as life becomes more digital. Students should learn in ways that disregard traditional disciplines like English and math, instead focusing on real world problems that allow for crossover and interplay. The focus should be on providing student-centered experiences that bring out qualities in students that aren’t necessarily measurable. Students should learn to build and manipulate computers, not just use them. Perhaps most importantly students should be taught how to learn, especially since the content or specific skills needed in the future are as yet unknown.