I can’t believe that in only two short months I’ve gained another 100 followers and I’m now at200 Followers!! With my education degree finishing up in a little over seven months I am finding that I am wanting to blog more and more to share what I’m learning in my last classes. I’ve also been able to share my blogging experience with other students in my faculty, which has been very rewarding! Each day I am able to network with more teachers from all over the world and I have learned so much about the field of education… Read More
8th Fire Documentary Series: It's Time
The following is a Learning Log completed for my Aboriginal Studies course on “It’s Time“, a portion of the 8th Fire documentary series. “To the approximately 80,000 living former students, and all family members and communities, the government of Canada now recognizes that it was wrong to forcibly remove children from their homes and we apologize for having done this.” – Stephen Harper, June 11, 2008 As I watched the T.V segment “It’s Time”, from the 8th Fire documentary series, I found myself experiencing a wide range of emotions. I laughed along with Howie Miller’s comedic approach to some… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week 35
Today is a very exciting Monday because I just reached 200 Followers, yay! I am currently working on a great giveaway celebration that I will post about later this week (probably tomorrow because I am pretty excited). In the mean time, here are some neat resources I just found this week. As always, I will be adding them to my lists of Fav Websites. 1 ) Go Social Studies Go– G.S.S.G is a website that has content organized and developed by actual Social Studies teachers as a means of engaging the different types of learners we find in… Read More
A Post Not Related to Education At All! Engagement Photos
Since I started blogging ALL of my posts have been about education: my university courses, student teaching, substitute teaching, curriculum, lesson planning, etc. Today, however, I’m just so excited that I can’t resist sharing something with you that has nothing to do with education! As you may know, I am engaged and my fiance is also in the same year of his education degree as me. We have been together for five years and he is truly my best friend. We just finished our engagement pictures that were all taken in our yard which is a three generation farm where… Read More
WBT Blog Bug Update!
I have been trying to re-organize and update our WBT Blogger Master List on Google Docs over these past few weeks! Here is whats new: – I have updated to include recognition of our new Social Media Intern positions! – Some blogs have been upgraded from “dormant” to “active” status now that they have started blogging again, yay! – Some blogs have lost their “active” status 🙁 Make sure you visit these ones and get them back on the blogging bandwagon! – Some blogs now have more information available to fill in those sections that may have… Read More
Wab Kinew
It takes a specific set of skills in order to be an effective public speaker. I’m not talking about the teacher who stands in front of their classroom kind of public speaker, although that takes some skills as well! I’m talking about the kind of public speaker who can stand in front of a diverse group of people, deliver a powerful message on what can be a controversial subject area and have the audience hanging off their every word. This is exactly the type of public speaker Wab Kinew is. Last night my fiance and I were lucky… Read More
Resources To Start Off Your Week 34
My first (VERY short) stint of student teaching is now completed and I am back at university for regular classes until mid-October. It is a really exciting feeling to be starting my last year of school before I become certified as a teacher… in EIGHT shorts months I will be graduated and can start searching for teaching positions!! Hopefully, I can then use some of these great resources that I found. As always, I will be adding them to my lists of resources under the Fav Websites heading. 1 ) Science Bob– Science Bob is a fun website that… Read More
Student Teaching Schedule
Today was the first day of school for student’s in our school and it was a busy one! During the first 3 periods of the first day of school, our entire school does a “trial run” of a full day’s schedule so I met all 125-ish of my Cooperating Teacher’s students in about an hour! To say it was a bit overwhelming would be an understatement but it definitely was interesting to see how our school began their first day with students. I also had my schedule change THREE times today… which makes that a total of FIVE… Read More
Whole Brain Teaching Wednesday! Certification Videos & 5 Step Lesson Plans
So today was my second day student teaching. Our day consisted of staff meetings, individual meetings with the principal and prep periods alternating throughout the day. I am going to provide an update tomorrow, as my student teaching schedule has changed DRASTICALLY (in a good way). In the mean time, I have exciting news!! Our principal, “Mrs. R” has told me that I should be able to film my class when I come back to student teach in October! 🙂 Our school has a letter that goes home to all students at the beginning of the year for… Read More
September Currently
So after seeing “Currently” posts every month on many A LOT of the teaching blogs I follow I decided to join in on the fun! I am so excited about it that I am breaking a blogging rule and posting twice in one day (I can’t help it!). If you haven’t encountered a “Currently” post before, it is just a fun post at the beginning of each month that serves as a way to share what is Currently going on in your life! You can link up and share your own “Currently” post by visiting the wonderful Farley… Read More