When I took on my teaching position I inadvertently took on the responsibility of planning our school’s largest spirit-activity: Grade Wars. Started in our school by my predecessor, Grade Wars is a week-long school/community-spirit activity between our high school classes that sees them competing in various events that are based on everything from athletics and academics to social-justice and just plain craziness. I say that I inadvertently took on the responsibility…. While it is encouraged, Grade Wars isn’t something that was deemed mandatory by my admin team so I actually didn’t take it on during my… 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
Student-Led Back To School Kick-Offs
Last year myself and another colleague took over the supervision of our school’s Student Council. After being involved in student council myself for over 9 years, at the high school and post secondary levels, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to help out our students as they made their voices heard at our school. To be honest, it was a rocky start…. positive… but rocky. Both my colleague and I were new to the school so we still unaware of many of the school traditions and schedules that the student body and staff expected of us. Furthermore,… Read More