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Week 8 Reflection

March 8, 2024 / / 0 Comments

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Inclusive education is very important to me. I want to create a classroom environment where everyone is welcomed and has opportunities to succeed. To do this, I plan to not only use UDL, but to also do a lot of community building in the classroom at the beginning of the year and throughout the year to make sure students value and encourage inclusion. It is my priority to have students aware of why inclusion is important and how to create an inclusive environment for everyone. I am a proponent of encouraging students to make many different friends and to include all of their peers in their play.

In addition to encouraging kindness and making friends with many different types of people, I want to engage students in the making of a classroom contract. A classroom contract helps students to become involved in the making of their own classroom rules and expectations. The making of a classroom contract often sparks conversations about inclusivity and kindness, and I think these conversations are extremely valuable to have with and between students.

I also plan to use some of Rick Hanssen’s lesson plans to empower students to become difference makers and to engage students in disability awareness. There are many resources for different subject areas, but his resources on difference making and disability awareness are really great to use in the classroom.

Lastly, one of my classmates and I recently talked about how we both really want to use classroom contracts in our future classes. I think many people in the cohort are planning to use classroom contracts and to incorporate different ways to create an inclusive environment. Another classmate mentioned having a “cozy corner” for students to have a calm area to self regulate. I think this is a great way to help create an environment where students feel supported and are given opportunities to do what they need to do for their emotional and physical wellbeing.

What kinds of practices do y’all plan to integrate into your classrooms to encourage inclusion?! Let me know in the comments!

Week 5 Reflection

February 15, 2024 / / 0 Comments

I really enjoyed learning about why it is important for students and teachers to learn how to be good content curators. For teachers, it helps them build their personal learning network (PLN). For students and teachers, curating content makes them interact with the materials they choose and add their point of view to the presentation of knowledge. They learn what is the most important knowledge to know, and think critically about what they are learning. I also loved that the two sides to curation are celebration and critique!

Content Curation Process by Beth KanterAttribution (CC BY 2.0)

Notion was super easy to sign up for, and was pretty simple to figure out! I explored around and it seems like a cool resource! I think I would use Notion for when I need to organize my research and use some more complex things that Microsoft Word doesn’t create easily (like to-do lists, tables, embedding videos, etc.). I appreciate how straight forward it is, and how organized the whole layout is. It also helped push me into the world of AI, since it has an AI function. I have never used AI before, but I have been wanting to try it out. I tested it of course, and I was pleasantly surprised! I put in “write a paragraph about the pros and cons of the bc curriculum” and it did a pretty good job of completing that task. I definitely won’t be using it all the time just yet, but it was a good way to try it out for the first time.

Lastly, this week our learning pod tried out Padlet. Honestly, I find it a tad confusing but I am still exploring it. I’ll talk to the group next week and ask for their thoughts on it. Maybe they’ll have some tips on how to make it work better for me!

Week 4 Reflection

February 8, 2024 / / 0 Comments

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I really enjoyed the discussion with the guest speaker this week, Jesse Miller. I did not realize how harsh some of the regulations are revolving teachers’ social media outside of the classroom. I have a picture of me and my family out for dinner as my Facebook cover photo. We happen to all have wine in our hands, and this talk really made me reflect on that and think about if that is something I would want professional contacts and/or students to be able to see.

I also found it incredibly interesting to find out that schools can see what goes through their networks, so sending things on social media are basically public (at least to the school). Obviously this means teachers need to be very careful with what they post or send when at school.

During our learning pod meeting this week, we talked about how we are enjoying the course, and our posts are going well so far! We also noted that being a teacher comes with many responsibilities and so it is important to know what is expected of teachers inside the schools they work at, but also outside of the schools they work at. The school act, on the bclaws.gov website goes over some of the responsibilities that teachers need to know and upkeep.

Week 3 Inquiry

January 29, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Creator: Ketut Subiyanto | Credit: Photo by Ketut Subiyanto

This was my first week doing my yoga everyday, and I realized a few things I’d like to share. Firstly, I will admit that I completely forgot to do yoga on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday hit and I felt so annoyed with myself that I’d forgotten. Regardless, I decided that I need to put yoga into my schedule (I always stick to my schedule), and also not be so strict with the amount of yoga I am committing to. When I give myself more freedom to spread out the yoga throughout the day and not be so rigid on the exact timing of it, I feel a lot less stressed and overwhelmed about it. I want to take this inquiry seriously and still aim for 15 minutes per day to see if yoga can give me benefits mentally, but I don’t think it can give me those benefits when I am stressed about fitting in doing the action itself. . The point of this inquiry is to see if I can lower my stress levels with yoga, so I don’t want to stress myself out more by putting pressure on myself to do things that sometimes just aren’t attainable.

When I did my first session on Wednesday, it was easy, because Wednesdays are my days off of school. I ended up doing 20 minutes instead of 15 since I had the time. Thursday rolled around though, and I was so busy that I felt stressed to fit in the yoga. I got home late and just wanted to go to sleep. I ended up doing 10 minutes instead of 15 that day, and I felt even more tired after the session, and I slept really well. Then I did my 15 minute sessions on Friday and Saturday, I felt especially relaxed and tired after. On Sunday, I did the yoga after my workout, which made me feel exhausted right after, but then energized after around 10 minutes. The point of sharing this information is that after almost all of my sessions this week, I felt very relaxed and pretty tired after. I have been doing my own yoga moves and not following any yoga videos, but I am wondering if I followed an energizing yoga video that maybe I would feel less tired after.

So the plan is to stick with a daily goal of 15 minutes, but to not stress if I do a little less one day. Next week I will try an energizing yoga video like this to do earlier in the day and see if my body feels more energized after!

I really liked hearing about my learning pod’s inquiry projects! Everyone’s inquiries are so different from one another’s and I am super interested to continue learning more about everyone’s findings. I am in a group with Emma (her inquiry is on growing her social media), Michael (his inquiry is on how reading affects our perspectives), and Rick (his inquiry is on how to be a better parent).

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