A teacher learning to ask the right questions.
The only way to try something new, to innovate your practice, is to ask questions about your practice. A previous colleague of mine put forth the above statement at a staff meeting last year and it has really stuck with me. As I mentioned in a previous post, this colleague also added that these questions about practice …
I am officially on holiday and here is something I keep thinking about... In our last week of the school year, as we were wrapping up our inquiries into sharing the planet, waste, and human impacts of other living things, we had a chance to hold a Skype interview with Angela Haseltine Pozzi the founder …
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Here we are, the last days of this school year. At the beginning of this school year, I photographed the relatively empty, calm, and uncluttered space. I wrote about the possibility that is held in the space of a classroom at the beginning of a school year. What to say about the last days? I …
Yep. We are about to embark on a family gap-year. We have been living and teaching in Asia for the past six years and we are ready to return home, to the United States. We did not keep a home when left and we feel ready and excited for a new adventure ahead. In order …
My colleague, Jacqui, and I have spent the last few months supporting the Grade 2 students in an inquiry around the interconnectedness of living things and the impacts humans can have on plants and animals. As soon as we began tuning-in to the concepts of this inquiry we noticed that interest levels were way high. …
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