Learning to be a teacher, one day at a time…
No matter how many years I've spent in education, I never sleep well the night before the first day with a new class. I fret about mispronouncing names, how amazing other teacher's learning spaces look in comparison to my own and wonder if I have enough activities planned to keep the kids 'occupied' until the... Continue Reading →
Earlier in the course, we applied the Arena Framework to our own teaching context. As I've progressed in this course, I've been thinking a lot about the depth change. Rodger's Diffusion Theory of Innovation (2003) conceptualized change as a bell curve of a given population adopting an innovation. In this regard, success is viewed as a... Continue Reading →
I often get asked if I know a good handwriting or science app or which apps I use the most. My answer often surprises people, the camera. I chose the camera because it's a piece of technology that is most accessible and used by teachers outside of the educational sphere. At the baseline, you can... Continue Reading →
It's been nearly two months since the learners in my class asked me to sit outside the literacy circle. Each week one of the children acts as the main facilitator for the group. The child drafts questions to discuss the novel Out of My Mind and makes a seating chart based on the data from the... Continue Reading →
Agency. It's the word right at the centre of the new enhanced PYP. Like many schools, our teaching team is starting to reflect on what this means for how we plan learning engagements. A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a planning meeting focused on what the teachers would be doing to support learner agency... Continue Reading →
Powell, G., & McCauley, A. W. (2012;2011;). Blogging as a way to promote Family–Professional Partnerships. Young Exceptional Children, 15(2), 20-31. 10.1177/1096250611428491 Description The article is a case study of the introduction of blogging as means to facilitate communication between family and an early childhood centre for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The importance of facilitating... Continue Reading →
Davis, N. (2017). Chapter 2. The Arena framework and a story. In Author, Digital technologies and change in education: The Arena framework (pp 9-33). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Description This book chapter introduces concepts of ecology, in particular, human ecology, as the Arena. The Arena is a theoretical framework to understand how and why educational systems, the people within in... Continue Reading →
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As part of my online masters, I am developing a series of blog posts to act as an e-portfolio. My love of good GIF and a task of categorizing the different model of leadership lends itself well to this post. Instructional Leadership I'm not sure any principal would like the comparison and Frank Underwood would... Continue Reading →
Rogers, E. M. (2003). Attributes of innovations and their rate of adoption. In Author, Diffusion of Innovations. 5th ed. (pp. 219-266) New York, NY: Free Press. Description This book chapter looks at five key variables that cause an innovation to be adopted by the mainstream - relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability and observability. Each of these variables... Continue Reading →
Teaching the Teacher 