Inspiring Educators Everywhere
Once upon a time, it was known as Circle Time with Kindergarten and early elementary grades. These days it can be referred to as Morning Meeting, Daily Meeting, and many other things. For the sake of this post, I’ll refer to it as Morning Meeting since that’s what I now call it with my current... Continue Reading →
About a year ago I decided to check out a Birding Beijing social event here in Beijing, China. I do a great deal of work within my school with regards to environmental and nature education, but I wanted to meet people from outside the international school world who like-minded. It was a fantastic event and... Continue Reading →
This evening I was following the #asiaED chat on Twitter and the topic was co-teaching and co-planning. The theme centered around the positives and challenges of working in this type of education model. This, of course, got me to thinking about my experiences co-teaching and co-planning. I currently work at an international school where I... Continue Reading →
I have always been a huge advocate of outdoor learning and outdoor play. I think it stems from my upbringing in rural Canada and I grew up with a close connection to the outdoors and nature. That coupled with the sadness I have felt my entire international teaching career, working in large cities where... Continue Reading →
Many years ago, in the early days of my teaching career, I don’t have many memories of teacher collaboration where I taught. In the pre-Google era, we would copy worksheets from books of blackline masters on shelves in the resource room and make our own worksheets using a word processor. We would make these things,... Continue Reading →
How do we encourage our students to be more creative? How do we foster critical thinking and problem-solving skills? In my years in the classroom, I have found that by having a maker space that’s actually inside my classroom has helped a lot. When I first came across the idea of a Makerspace for my... Continue Reading →
Over the years I have found that a great way to get your class motivated is through multi-age student collaboration. It’s really quite simple, team up with an older or younger grade and do some work together. This could be a project or simply have the other grade level participate in an activity with... Continue Reading →
