March 11, 2020

This week is an exciting week! We found out our practicum placements and have been communicating with our Teacher Mentor about which topics to teach.  I will be teaching 4 lessons on Geometry in Math and 4 lessons on the nervous system in Science, as well as some French, Careers, or P.E. lessons. My partner and I are meeting our TM this Friday morning and we’re going to play an icebreaker game with the students and get to know everyone a little bit.  It has been challenging creating the unit and lesson plans because it isn’t theoretical – I will actually be teaching these lessons and will need to know my stuff!  Despite the challenge, I am excited to teach grade 6/7 because it will be a very different experience to teaching K/1 and I hope to learn so much about teaching!

March 26, 2020

Wow, what a dramatic past couple days!  We have received an update that our practicum this April will most likely be online now, which is completely understandable considering the world crisis we are all in.  I was not prepared for the drama that ensued from my classmates!  It was very hard to remain non-reactive and positive during this, and I am so thankful our program coordinator, Nan Stevens, stepped in and emailed the following out: “Educators must be flexible and responsive to unforeseen circumstances throughout their careers. It is our hope that this situation is an opportunity for you to learn how to be flexible, accommodating, and creative when events take place beyond your control.”  I am hopeful my classmates will be able to accept the reality and become more flexible and understanding through this pandemic crisis, especially as future educators.  It has been a difficult week for many reasons, we do not need ego-fueled rages to blind our sight and take over the love and kindness that we need so badly at this time.

April 5, 2020

Well, it’s Sunday afternoon.  I think this is my last post of the whole e-portfolio!  I am very very proud of myself for completing this assignment because technology is not my strong suit and I struggle with computers often.  This has been a huge LEARNING opportunity for me, since I began with no knowledge whatsoever of creating a website, and now I have done it! #winning