For the past two years, I have been a member of a group known as the Radical Education Research Collective, or RERC. Founded by educator Amber Yared in 2009, RERC is a group of 8 diverse individuals who share a common interest in learning and sharing ideas about progressive, alternative, unconventional education practices. I met Amber …
After teaching the same lesson on the Elements of Democracy last year, this year I updated the lesson based on what I had learned in PD, both in the Canada World Studies meetings and our PD sessions with Don Plumb. In the CWS meetings, we learned about “interactive lectures” which chunks information into 5 minute …
Once again this year, I had the good fortune of having an election take place during my Civics course. The wonderfully smart and talented people at Student Vote make engaging students easy through their excellent resources around elections in Canada, so I decided to take advantage of this amazing program again this year. Students were …
While in teacher’s college, I had an instructor who swore by checklists. In all assignments for that course, we were given a checklist to complete prior to submission of our project. I found that this not only made expectations clear to students, but also allowed us to self assess and reflect on our work before …