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This week’s #EdublogsClub prompt is about challenging situations, and at the end of a long weekend where I’ve spent more than fifteen hours putting together an inquiry-based project magazine on Canva, it seems an appropriate conversation to have. It has… Continue Reading →
One of the things I’ve been thinking a lot about lately is … well, pacing, I guess. What I teach, how I teach it, how long I give students to complete their work … things like that. (This, if you… Continue Reading →
Earlier this week, my students were meeting in their inquiry groups for the first time. We started the project a month ago, but it’s the first inquiry they’ve done with me (and, for most of them, the first inquiry they’ve… Continue Reading →
What is the purpose of a portfolio? Is it meant to show growth – movement from one level of learning to the next, where we take our weaker pieces and reflect on what improvement is required (and why we didn’t… Continue Reading →
What is the balance between the freedom allowed to older, presumably more mature secondary school students and the requirements of appropriateness in the public school classroom? This is a question I’m struggling with right now as a teacher of a… Continue Reading →
I spend a lot of time working with my students to help them be successful – both in my class and in the other classes they take. We go over thinking skills and writing skills; I teach them how to… Continue Reading →
I had the privilege of having two student teachers join me to observe my Humanities 8 class this morning. It reminded me of lo those many years ago (no, I’m not going to tell you how many; suffice it to… Continue Reading →
Last week a student used the word “faggot” in my class. I felt like I’d been punched. Whereas it would still have bothered me several years ago, I wouldn’t have had quite as visceral a reaction as I had last… Continue Reading →
In a workshop on Digital Citizenship at today’s DENapalooza, Dean Shareski, the Community Manager for Discovery Education Canada talked about the three things that make a digital citizen (and pointed out that they really aren’t that different from the aspects… Continue Reading →
Who I am in a large part determines how I teach. Not necessarily what I teach – a lot of that has to doing with the curriculum prescribed by the Ministry of Education and another significant part to doing with… Continue Reading →
