Ever since our division was encouraged to join Twitter at the end of September I have been trying to keep participation going by posting weekly “Tweet Challenges“. This week’s challenge is: #trsd32 tweet challenge of the week. Share what #MTSPDDAY event you’re attending & see if they have a hashtag feed going! — Mrs T (@MissLwbt) October 19, 2015 Check out our previous weekly challenges as well: – #TRSD32 Tweet Challenge for the Week of Oct 6th – #TRSD32 Tweet Challenge for the Week of Oct 13th
Resources To Start Off Your Week 81
Today I am bringing back one of my favourite types of posts… one that I haven’t participated in since this time TWO years ago; Resources To Start Off Your Week! Who doesn’t love expanding their list of educational resources?? I know that as soon as I see a list of resources online my mind immediately starts turning on how I can incorporate and use these new and exciting ideas! At the start of each week I will post a list of Resources to Start Off Your Week with at least two new additions that I will add to my favourite websites… Read More
#TRSD32 is on Twitter!
On Monday, September 28th, our division brought in George Couros for our fall-time PD. George is an influential educator, speaker, consultant, blogger, tweeter, overall awesome guy and I am SO disappointed that I missed an opportunity to hear him speak to our teachers. In theory, I probably could have attended with Jaxson if I wanted to, but we also had an out-of-town doctor’s appointment on that day as well so it was not meant to be. One of the activities that George had our teacher’s participate in was joining Twitter! Yay! As someone who has been… Read More
October Currently
October is here and it is my favourite month of the year! This month includes my birthday, Thanksgiving, a long weekend for Manitoba teachers, Halloween, fall colours, football season, cool temperatures, and just overall awesomeness! Last month I missed the Currently post as I was at the hospital welcoming my first son, Jaxson 🙂 One month in, however, I am beginning to get a sense of routine and am back at it! I must admit, my Currently post is somewhat bland and doesn’t have a lot to share but it is all I have at the moment as… Read More
Our Curriculum Situation in 150 Words
On Saturday I shared my Curriculum Situation that I created for my Introduction to Curriculum class that I am currently enrolled in. While the entry that I created was specific for me, the assignment itself was collaborative and we were tasked with merging our situation with those of two other students in order to create one complete Curriculum Situation that we felt accurately represented us as a group. To complete this task we each created our own situations, like the one I shared, and then went through to determine where our similarities and differences laid. Once… Read More
Put Yourself In Their Shoes… Does The Adolescent Brain Allow That?
My favourite subject has always been history. As a child I loved going to museums, seeing artifacts from cultures and situations long past, watching documentaries, and reading books that included everything from Little House on the Prairie to Clan of the Cave Bear. When I reached post-secondary I majored in History and completed a double-minor in Geography and Geology so that I could understand as much as possible about a situation: – What happened? When did it happen? Why did it happen? (History) – Where did it happen? What was there then? What is there now? (Geography) –… Read More
My Curriculum Situation in 150 Words
This semester I am participating in an Introduction to Curriculum class through Brandon University as part of my Masters program requirements. While there is a traditional class held in-person on campus I am one of 15+ students who tunes in via teleconference and online modules due to distance. Our course assignment is a large project that is slowly created piece-by-piece through the semester and is a collaborative work between two or three people. I am very fortunate to have a good friend in the course who lives only 20mins away and is also on Mat leave right now as… Read More
My Former Classroom – Reflective Blogging Part 5
This post is part of the Reflective Teaching Blogging Challenge hosted by Terry at Te@ch Thought. While the original challenge is a year-old already I thought it would be the perfect thing to keep me on track over the next little while.DAY 5 – Post a picture of your classroom and describe what you see — and what you don’t see that you’d like to. When I initially started this post I went back to my previous classroom reveal posts from 2014 and 2013; thinking that I would critique the classrooms that I helped create for my students in the past.… Read More
Student Council Is On “Insta” and Other Successes
I am still co-supervising our school’s student council with one of my colleagues and, while it is hard not being at the school for all of the day-to-day interactions and activities, I am able to make it to our weekly meetings at noon hour and some of our larger school events. I couldn’t be more proud of our student council this year. We have an amazing group of students who take charge and work well together. Despite being in school for only 11 days they have already: – cleaned out and organized the student council room… Read More
What Teachers Make – Reflective Blogging Part 4
This post is part of the Reflective Teaching Blogging Challenge hosted by Terry at Te@ch Thought. While the original challenge is a year-old already I thought it would be the perfect thing to keep me on track over the next little while.DAY 4 – Respond: What do you love the most about teaching? This is something that is hard for me to accurately put into words because there isn’t just one singular aspect of teaching that I love the most. In fact, there isn’t even a handful of aspects that I love the most. Teaching is one of those professions that… Read More