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 * __Welcome to the NE 4 Virtual Professional Learning Community__ **
 * The NE4 Family of Schools and the TDSB Literacy Department have made Higher Order Thinking and Questioning skills a focus this year. A professional development session was done in October 2009 for the F.O.S. where two primary teachers from each school were invited.

At this session we received a text called __Asking Better Questions__ by Norah Morgan and Juliana Saxton to share in our school P.L.C. hub meetings.

This wiki has been developed for all teachers at Heritage Park P.S., as well as in all the NE 4 Family of Schools, to learn about the topics discussed in the pd session and in the text.

Hopefully this wiki will help guide the hub meetings, make the information provided accessible from the web, as well as provide a space for discussion to occur between different professionals in the NE4 FOS. Please view this eye-opening video about the needs of the 21st Century Learner, to help fuel our discussion for the need to teach students Higher Order Thinking skills. **// This video also points out that teachers need to incorporate current technology in our teaching to motivate higher order learning (which will be discussed more in a future virtual P.L.C.). // media type="youtube" key="_A-ZVCjfWf8" height="344" width="425"