PD isn’t about the sessions I attend, books and articles I read, or the conferences I attend. It’s all about mindset. The approach I take is about Personal Development. Sometimes my focus is on the professional but it’s not my sole purpose for learning and growth.
Today students were doing an assessment. We started the day with a more traditional type of assessment. Despite being online, I have students complete an assessment using OneNote and show their work – either by doing on paper and uploading a picture or by doing the work right in OneNote. I give them the option…
Sometimes the days seem to blend one into another. I find this especially happens at this time of year when it seems like there is still a great deal to get done and the time seems to be rushing past. Even after over 30 years in education, I still have those moments when I get…
Nature. The Great Outdoors. The sounds and sights of being outdoors. Being in an online classroom does present some challenges. One of them is it’s hard to organize to get students outside. It’s sometimes hard to get everyone to go outside as each person is in different circumstances which makes their access to the outside…
I’ve been reading The Practice, Seth Godin’s new book. As I work through different ideas and how much really connects to education and what we do in school, I look at what I am doing in my own online classroom and how our practices might change in different ways to allow students a greater opportunity…
On Thursday my students were taking part in a Retreat while on Friday we had our staff retreat. Teaching in a Catholic school means that faith and discussions of faith are an important part of our daily activities and opportunities such as these are important for students and staff. On Thursday, my students took part…
In my post yesterday, Motivation, I said that I’d report back on making a change of direction we were going to take in the class. It wasn’t a big change, more like a course correction but I am hoping it will lead to a bigger change down the road. Let Them Lead Each morning we…
Motivation I think we all wish we had more of it. That we were motivated to do what we have to do. Some days, we’re really motivated to get at the tasks at hand. Other days, not so much. And then there are those days were motivation has taken a vacation and hasn’t even bothered…
My online class has been using Teams and OneNote for all the work we have been doing for most of this year. Now, I wasn’t a big fan of either of these when I first used them a while ago so I wasn’t looking forward to using them with my grade 7/8 class online. However,…
Being back teaching middle years on a full-time basis has been a shift for me this year. As many of you know, I’ve was working on my PhD for the previous 6 years as a full-time student. Before that, I was an administrator so the jump back into full-time teaching has meant a few changes.…
