I stated in my blog post earlier this week, that I will be focusing on the following question for the PME 811 course: How do we keep our teaching innovative and creative? How do stay relevant and create programming that follows curriculum, teaches students the necessary skills and engages them with the material? Take a… Read More Professor Goals
There is nothing worse than attending a workshop, class, or professional development opportunity and leaving disappointed. That feeling when you’ve paid your money and haven’t learned anything. On the contrary, perhaps the session/class was boring and uninteresting, therefore you lost interest and didn’t absorb the information properly. As someone who is planning on teaching in… Read More My Burning Question
To my PME 811 classmates – Welcome to my blog/website. It will be here that I will share my thoughts on innovation in teaching and learning. For my regular blog followers, I appreciate your patience as I post regular education blogs in the process of completing my Masters. I will try to space out all… Read More Innovation in Teaching – Introduction
Today I began my next course in my Master of Education: PME 801 – Collaborative Inquiry. Our first task was to share a little “about me” as a collaborator. This was my response: I dabbled on the idea of doing a multitude of different technological projects for this, but in the end I settled with… Read More About Me as a Collaborator
The first time I was told I was like a Newfie woman, I was not sure how I felt about it. I had heard the term “Newfie” used in a derogatory way so many times, that it didn’t sound like much of a compliment. I was assured by my East Coast friend that it was indeed… Read More The Islander
“If all your friends jumped from a bridge, would you?” I used to think this was a dumb question. If all my friends jumped from a bridge, I most definitely would not. However, I apparently thought it was intelligent to jump from a window onto gym mats. As much as I never thought I’d be… Read More Would You Jump?
I would never call myself a religious person. Instead, I would say I am more of a spiritual person. However, I wanted to keep this blog post short and leave you with my one and only (and favourite) prayer… The Serenity Prayer Each and every day, this prayer starts my day on the side of my… Read More Serenity, Courage & Wisdom
Predictably unpredictable – I feel like this is one of the best ways to describe life. You hear about the fact that the only thing that is consistent in life is change. So why not embrace a little unpredictability? A predictable and cyclical life has never been the life for me. Where’s the fun in always doing… Read More Predictably Unpredictable
“Oh right, I forgot,” he sneered at me. “It happened two minutes ago, so to you, it’s over. It’s in the past.” I had a partner who regularly scolded me for the fact I like to settle into the moment, live in the present and not look at the past or the future too much.… Read More That’s The Past
Quite a few years ago now I had the incredible opportunity to sing at provincials for musical theatre. I had placed gold in a few classes at the Quinte Rotary Music Festival, and was selected to move on to a competition in Ottawa. When I arrived at the competition, I was even more excited to… Read More It’s All In The Eyes
