Every year at this time, I attend the Faith Meets Pedagogy conference in Toronto. It's a conference for Catholic school teachers. Some of the content is faith related, while other content is geared to virtually anybody in the teaching world. This year, I was not able to attend as I am on maternity leave. One of my fellow teachers did attend this year. He wrote to me yesterday, all gung ho with a URL that he wanted the teachers to check out on rich performance tasks. This was a total buzz word from teacher's college. It basically means tasks that have authentic purposes and are useful in the grand scheme of things.
I check it out and discovered it was a series of webquests catagorized by grade level and subject. I started checking out the grade eight webquests because that is the grade I will be teaching in the new year. I found some pretty neat problems and tasks for the students to discover.
I created a webquest in teacher's college at Nipissing. They were fun to create and also fun to watch the students chip away at. I cannot wait to try this link with my grade eights in the new year.
Check it out ... http://www.ldcsb.on.ca/schools/cfe/RPT/
Anastasia Rioux
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