Welcome to Day 6 of my 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Everyday, yes, EVERYDAY for 12 full days I am giving away a classroom resource that I have developed to everyone who visits! It is, however, the holidays so I’d love for you to spread the Christmas cheer as well and link up to give away a resource of your own! You can link up and celebrate with us for 1 day, 2 days, or all 12 days! I don’t care, as long as you host one giveaway to spread the Christmas spirit 🙂 12 Days of Christmas: Day 6 Giveaway!! War of 1812… Read More
12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Day 5
Welcome to Day 5 of my 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Everyday, yes, EVERYDAY for 12 full days I am giving away a classroom resource that I have developed to everyone who visits! It is, however, the holidays so I’d love for you to spread the Christmas cheer as well and link up to give away a resource of your own! You can link up and celebrate with us for 1 day, 2 days, or all 12 days! I don’t care, as long as you host one giveaway to spread the Christmas spirit 🙂 12 Days of Christmas: Day 5 Giveaway!! War of 1812:… Read More
12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Day 4
Welcome to Day 4 of my 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway!It is also Monday, so consider this my Resources To Start Off Your Week post as well 🙂 Everyday, yes, EVERYDAY for 12 full days I am giving away a classroom resource that I have developed to everyone who visits! It is, however, the holidays so I’d love for you to spread the Christmas cheer as well and link up to give away a resource of your own! You can link up and celebrate with us for 1 day, 2 days, or all 12 days! I don’t care, as long as you host… Read More
12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Day 3
Welcome to Day 3 of my 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Everyday, yes, EVERYDAY for 12 full days I am giving away a classroom resource that I have developed to everyone who visits! It is, however, the holidays so I’d love for you to spread the Christmas cheer as well and link up to give away a resource of your own! You can link up and celebrate with us for 1 day, 2 days, or all 12 days! I don’t care, as long as you host one giveaway to spread the Christmas spirit 🙂 12 Days of Christmas: Day 3 Giveaway!! First Nations –… Read More
12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Day 2
Welcome to Day 2 of my 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Everyday, yes, EVERYDAY for 12 full days I am giving away a classroom resource that I have developed to everyone who visits! It is, however, the holidays so I’d love for you to spread the Christmas cheer as well and link up to give away a resource of your own! You can link up and celebrate with us for 1 day, 2 days, or all 12 days! I don’t care, as long as you host one giveaway to spread the Christmas spirit 🙂 12 Days of Christmas: Day 2 Giveaway!! Grade 5/6… Read More
12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Day 1
I’ve mentioned multiple times over the past few weeks that I LOVE the holidays and to celebrate I decided to undertake another blogging milestone…. I’m hosting my very first linky event! Everyday, yes, EVERYDAY for the next 12 days I will be giving away a classroom resource that I have developed to everyone who visits! It is, however, the holidays so I’d love for you to spread the Christmas cheer as well and link up to give away a resource of your own! You can link up and celebrate with us for 1 day, 2 days, or all 12 days! … Read More
Teaching of Aboriginal Studies Exam Review
Tomorrow is our final exam in our Teaching of Aboriginal Studies class. Here is my completion of our exam review, wish me luck! 🙂 10 Ways to Assess for Racism/Sexism in Classroom Resources1 ) Look at the Illustrations – Is there “tokensim”? – Who is doing what in the image?2 ) What is the Story Line – Does the character need to adopt “white” traits to be successful? – Who solves the problem in the story? – What is the role of women?3 ) What is their Lifestyle – Can you tell… Read More
Resources To Start Off Your Week 47
If you noticed, I haven’t been blogging as much lately and this week I wanted to share with you why that is. The resource that I am sharing this week is actually 30 resources all in one!! As always, I will be adding this to my lists of resources under the Fav Websites heading. One of the classes we have to take is, Teaching Aboriginal Studies, and our final project was to create a Curriculum & Resource Portfolio displaying resources that could be used to incorporate Aboriginal perspective. Luckily for me, my partner was also my… Read More
Professional Portfolio Feedback
Yesterday I posted about how I was presenting my teaching portfolio in class today as part of a “portfolio fair” in my Science Methods class. In addition to presenting it to my peers, I also posted it to my Facebook and Twitter accounts as well to try and get more feedback. As promised, here are some of the comments & suggestions that I got: 1 ) Good use of pictures – People liked that I had photos in addition to text so they could really visualize what I was trying to get… Read More
More on Professional Portfolios
Tomorrow in my Science Methods class we are having a “portfolio fair” in which we take turns sharing our professional teaching portfolios. We are able to see what other people have included, get formatting/organization ideas, critique for errors, etc. In case you missed it the first time, I actually took a very big step (for me) and decided to share my portfolio to the world via a blog post last month. While I can’t say I received any constructive criticism, I did receive a lot of kind and supportive comments so that must mean I am doing something… Read More