Ideas that Inspire
I love what this teenager has to say about education, and how it has to be centered around the individual. I wonder how we can change schools to be more like this?
View ArticleThe More I Know, the More I Wonder..
First of all apologies for being M.I.A. for the last little while- I have been insanely busy with homework, applications, and interviews! I know tons of posts in one day is not ideal but it happens to...
View ArticleResponse to “Avoid the Burn”
I am going to highlight Rebecca’s blog post Avoid the Burn, where she talks about how teachers can avoid becoming ‘burnout.’ Firstly, I would like to address the reason why burnout is so common in the...
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Learning from Ford
Today I received a lovely gift that was given to all the staff at UR International. It is a small framed quote which says(in case you can’t read it), “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together...
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Always Moving Forward
Sometimes it is so easy to fall into routine, especially with teaching. Unfortunately this can be easily seen by those few teachers who teach the same things in the same ways year after year. I had a...
View ArticleObsolete Things in 21st Century Schools
My mom actually passed along a very interesting blog post to me which I thought I would share to you all. It is called 14 things that are obsolete in 21st century schools, and is written by Ingvi...
View ArticleWhat do you think?
What do you think the roles of Educational Assistants in the classroom are- and how is it different from the roles of teachers? This is a question that I’m addressing in a research paper, and have...
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Survival of the Fittest
I was reflecting on a story that a professor shared with our class from a previous fourth year Education student she said that she was in survival mode and therefore I didn’t really retain anything...
View Article“A Student Would Rather be Bad Than Stupid”
This is quote from a presentation I watched during my EPSY 400 class on collaborating with parents when working with a child with a disability. The woman who spoke this said it from the view of a...
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