Welcome to the Focus Room Response

Created by Marsha Appling-Nunez (@m.applingnunez), response for Your Metaphor Activity

Remember when I first started my Ontario Extend journey? My Teacher for Learning homepage uses this image. As I mentioned a respected college and good friend had sent me the above image stating, “basic issue in education”. It seemed like the perfect image to represent the concept of prior knowledge, the tangled web of culture, more… »

Step-by-Step the Art of Mastery in Writing Response

Created by Marsha Appling-Nunez (@m.applingnunez), response for Like Driving a Car Activity

I recently had a great conversation with a respected colleague and unofficial mentor on how mandated learning objectives should be replaced with performance objectives. He asserted that the key concepts are supported by the performance outcomes which encompasses learning, resources, and guidelines. He is on a Nick Shackleton-Jones kick. But shouldn’t our mandated learning objectives more… »

WIIFM and Learning Objectives Response

Created by Marsha Appling-Nunez (@m.applingnunez), response for WIIFM Activity

I sincerely hope that my learners NEVER stop asking WIIFM? Because if they are unable to see the answers, I need to make adjustments. I cannot meet the learners where they are and support their growth if we only fall back on the poor parenting response of “because I said so/because that’s the way it more… »

Concept Mapping: Seeing the Past, Present, & Future Response

Created by Marsha Appling-Nunez (@m.applingnunez), response for Syllabus Concept Map Activity

I have always been a fan of Understanding By Design by Wiggins and McTighe. I found it to be a useful framework that I could easily apply to lesson planning that would improve my students learning. I found that it allowed me to navigate within the systems standardization framework, but allows me to tie in more… »