VOTE! Be a role model for YOUTH who can’t
Thursday, June 7th is election day in Ontario. VOTE! Be a role model for youth who can’t!
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Category: Topics for Parents and Students
Reading and Mental Health
Reading can support students in establishing and maintaining good mental health; it can be the lifeline they desperately need.
OSSLT Student Feedback: What we can DO to Improve Their Experience and Scores
If you regularly read @teacherevolution.me, you know that I’m all about student feedback. In my classroom, students share in decisions about content, assignments, organization, agenda etc. I’ve learned that to be a great teacher, I have to be a great listener – and that I have to cultivate and honour the student voice in my… Continue reading OSSLT Student Feedback: What we can DO to Improve Their Experience and Scores
The Importance of Teachable Moments
I’m swamped at work. So busy, in fact that I haven’t blogged in nearly a month, but somehow by the grace of God I’ve found 25 minutes to sit and write. My class agendas currently also feel this type of pressure. I’m teaching multiple grade 10 English courses, so we are ramping up towards the… Continue reading The Importance of Teachable Moments
10 Characteristics of Inquiry Based Teachers
Inquiry Based Teaching is so much more than practicing Inquiry Based Learning. Read on for 10 Characteristics of Inquiry Based Teachers!
The Fallacy of De-Streaming as a Bandaid for Education in Ontario
Why is it that when questions of the efficacy of education, curriculum, student achievement, etc. arise in Ontario teachers are the last to be consulted (if at all)? One would think that perhaps, as sole providers of daily education to students we may (long shot) have some kind of idea about what is going on… Continue reading The Fallacy of De-Streaming as a Bandaid for Education in Ontario
The Cell Phone Struggle: Part 2
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Earlier this school year, I wrote about my ongoing battles with secondary students and smartphone use in the classroom. My ‘new’ attempt at controlling the issue was to educate students about the dangers of smartphone use and to let them set their own classroom guidelines collaboratively with me so that… Continue reading The Cell Phone Struggle: Part 2
