Roy Henry Vickers Artist and Author Study Unit

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The final assignment of PME 810 Integrated Curriculum, Planning and Assessment involved applying course learnings and the Backwards Design process to create a unit and learning activity. My greatest challenge when completing the unit and lesson design activity was my topic. I am most comfortable with math and science. My passion in the classroom is…

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Inquiry, Language Arts, Lesson Plans, PME 810, Salish Sea, Social Studies, Teaching

Vision for Education

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I believe that all students should have access to a holistic and joyful learning environment for optimal growth. Students require daily opportunities to form connections, wonder, think and play.  The belief that “learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place),” (First Nations Education Steering…

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PME 810, Reflections, Teaching

Extending our Visual

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This post was co-created with Sarah Williams When continuing to build on our extended visual metaphor for this assignment we chose to add the moving pieces of teaching as living animals. We chose to use the indigenous representations of wolves by BC artist Michelle Stoney for multiple reasons, first in indigenous mythologies wolf represents a…

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Collaborative Visual

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The work for this was co-created with Sara Williams https://prezi.com/view/rmZHWQlwNTaDIlkQEC1W/  As educators we draw from a variety of sources, philosophies, experiences and perspectives to design the programs we use in our classrooms. Like a landscape without a variety of elements it would be incomplete and too much of the same makes it monotonous. We have…

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PME 810

Conceptions of Curriculum

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Doing the reading for this module I’m left with more questions than answers. While the readings themselves were clear I am now questioning how we prepare teachers for the classroom. As beginning teachers, we took methods courses about how to teach different subjects and learned to read curriculum documents to figure out what to teach…

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PME 810