As we start to read through the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime students are going to be focusing on the theme of Identity. Not only will we be learning about Christopher’s identity but we will be exploring our own identity as well. In this exercise we will start to explore … More This Is Me: Symbolic Self-Portrait
The video below is a summary of the experience Robyn and I had for our ECS 200 CBSL experience:
After watching the Tedx talk by Dan Habib about his son Samuel and reading Kelsey’s blog it strikes me how important inclusion of people of abilities is not only in school but in society. This week’s topic is one that I truly am passionate about. I have been fortunate enough in my life to have … More Inclusion and different abilities
This week we are taking a second to revisit our initial impressions of our CBSL experience and thinking about how are views of the experience have changed over time. I have been very fortunate with my volunteer experience to have a very consistent interaction with the Student Researchers that are part of Astonished!. Although I … More ECS 200 CBSL Experience 2.0
The readings this week mostly surrounded ideas about how we define teaching. The readings illustrate the dichotomy between views of teaching as a profession and how teachers self identify. In the reading taken from Understanding Canadian Schools we look a lot at how the idea of a profession is defined. Many would think of the colloquial … More Teaching: a profession and identity
Will Whitten 