The grade two students in Trina Crawford’s grade 2 class at École Hawrylak school have been working very hard to learn more about First Nations and Métis culture. You can read about their experiences via Mrs. Crawford’s blog. Throughout the course of the year, Trina’s students have learned a lot about First Nations and Métis culture within a … Continue reading »
Learning from Edtech guru Alec Couros #regteach PD
Professional Development with Professor Alec Couros Over the past couple of years, a number of Regina high schools have been working to create technology catalyst teams. The mandate of these teams has primarily been to pursue opportunities to learn about technology integration, to support the team members and the school community at large, and to … Continue reading »
Sugata Mitra via TED talks - Kids teach themselves
Reblogged from Learning through technology: In our last conversation about technology integration, lesson design and the purposeful use of technology in a specific context, one thing stuck out for me, so much so that I keep thinking about it. There was lots of fantastic discussion and much to ponder (post to come) but specifically, it … Continue reading »
Risk taking = great teaching?
Photo Credit: marenbruun via Compfight cc I hope that when my own two little boys are in school that they will be fortunate enough to be taught by teachers who are risk takers. I firmly believe that as professionals, it is essential that we take risks in our pedagogical approach and practice. As I am fortunate enough … Continue reading »
To This Day Project
I saw this amazing video today that I knew I had to share. Watch this beautiful short spoken poem from Shane Koyczan and help to start and continue conversations that hopefully results in action, and change. Share this with your students, your advisory group, anybody and everybody. Let’s share the message.
Saturday morning learning in the dojo
Recently I read this post by Brian Stack of Connected Principals comparing the karate studio as an example of a competency based classroom. In this blog posting, he discusses the elements of the karate studio that are examples of excellence in teaching practice. While I was at karate class with my five year old son Sam … Continue reading »
“Fixing” broken grades
Assessment has always been an interesting professional discussion for me. Much of my knowledge around “best practice” for assessment has been accrued through professional dialogue with colleagues and friends. Coming from a high school background as well, my practice has tended to be influenced by factors truly not related to the mastery of the outcomes in question. … Continue reading »
The flipped classroom and much more!
Reblogged from Learning through technology: For those of you who missed our meeting on January 24th, here are the big ideas – sorry it took so long! 1. We played around with a fun tech tool from the New Teacher Induction – Go to http://todaysmeet.com to create a virtual room for backchannel conversations during your … Continue reading »
PWIM superstars! aka categorizing and classifying
The students at Hawrylak are doing an amazing job learning their PWIM words; now they are continuing on the process and learning how to classify words according to their attributes. I have been lucky enough to work with both Rebekah Picard (gr 2) and Danielle Robertson (gr2/3) and have learned so much about the PWIM … Continue reading »
Learning with PWIM – moving on to word cards
Apprendre des nouveaux mots en français avec Mlle Picard- Rebekah has been continuing on without me in her grade 2 French Immersion class and it is so neat to see the progress that her students have made in their PWIM words during my absence! Over the past week, Rebekah’s students have been developing mastery of … Continue reading »
