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Continuing Education
Continuing Education
Master of Education
Master of Education
Curriculum Studies with a focus in Technology Integration
Curriculum Studies with a focus in Technology Integration
This degree, offered as a CCRCE cohort by Mount Saint Vincent University, is designed to develop the advanced skills to address different student needs and interests by examining how curriculum affects student success.
Leadership Opportunities
Leadership Opportunities
Mentoring a Student Teacher
Mentoring a Student Teacher
It is an incredible responsibility to mentor a student teacher. As a mentor you influence the direction of their teaching style, philosophy of education, and have an impact through them on their future students. In turn, I am reminded of best practices and current research in education. In these photographs, you can see my student teacher teaching an outdoor math lesson and building relationships with the students.
Grade 3/4/5/6 PLC Lead
Grade 3/4/5/6 PLC Lead
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are groups of teachers with a professional goal that will improve student learning and well-being. Our PLC consists of a teachers with the following teaching assignments: 3/4 IMM, 4/5 ENG, 5 IMM, 5/6 ENG.
Our goals are:
to increase school community between our classes, an area that has been impacted by COVID and will improve student well-being, by implementing class Pen-Pals.
to increase reading motivation by creating and tracking reading challenges.
to increase engagement in mathematics through math games and outdoor math.
Workshops and Seminars
Workshops and Seminars
Inclusion and Differentiation
Inclusion and Differentiation
Learning Support Meetings
Learning Support Meetings
August 2017 - Present
These ongoing meetings provide specific research, strategies, and supports that target individual needs within the classroom environment.
UbD to Support DI
UbD to Support DI
August 2017 - June 2018
Monthly professional development sessions for developing an integrated math unit with Jason MacDonald, Dana Laliberte, and Marion Small.
Collaborative Response Model
Collaborative Response Model
November 2017
Full day professional development with Kurtis and Lorna Hewson, the creators of the Collaborative Response Model, which targets students for programming according to their needs, without allowing students to fall through the cracks.
Literacy
Literacy
Implementing Guided Writing in the Elementary Classroom
Implementing Guided Writing in the Elementary Classroom
March 2019
Heather MacDonald presented a workshop focused on the elements of good writing and how to conference individually and in small groups with students to improve their writing skills.
FVSD Balanced Literacy Training
FVSD Balanced Literacy Training
September 2017 - June 2018
Over the year, teachers were trained by Heather MacDonald to implement the Balanced Literacy Framework, including specific reading skills and strategies, guided reading using Literacy Place materials, and how to properly administer Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessments, and how to teach writing using the 6+1 Traits of Writing and guided writing.
Numeracy
Numeracy
Math 5 Professional Learning Session: Multiplication Fundamentals
Math 5 Professional Learning Session: Multiplication Fundamentals
November 2019
This in-service by Darlene MacKeen Hudson, Cindy Ferguson, and Michelle McCarron was targeted to Grade 5 teachers as they began teaching the multiplication unit. The intent was to review the fundamentals of multiplication and provide strategies, teaching, games, and resources for teachers to bring back to their classrooms.
LEGO: WeDo Robotics in the Math Classroom
LEGO: WeDo Robotics in the Math Classroom
March 2018
Jeff Warrener demonstrated how robots could be used to teach mathematical concepts, including measurement, data analysis, graphing and estimation.
Making Differentiated Instruction Work in the Math Classroom
Making Differentiated Instruction Work in the Math Classroom
August 2017
This professional development by Jason MacDonald and Shannon Fordham provided teachers with strategies of engaging all learners by using Marion Small's Open Questions and low-floor high-ceiling questions with multiple entry points.
Engagement and Relationships
Engagement and Relationships
Minecraft Education: Engagement for the 21st Century Learner
Minecraft Education: Engagement for the 21st Century Learner
February 2019
In Bret Jesse's in-service, he taught teachers how to use gaming in 21st Century classrooms to engage learners and apply Game Theory to learning of outcomes. He focused on MinecraftEDU as a tool to teach in an integrated approach across multiple subjects.
When Students Get in Trouble - Alternatives to Consider
When Students Get in Trouble - Alternatives to Consider
February 2019
During this session, Ian Tisdale contrasted traditional discipline with the restorative approach, and the benefits of using restorative justice to improve relationships.
Jody Carrington: Relationships and Connection
Jody Carrington: Relationships and Connection
May 2019
Dr. Jody Carrington discussed research on attachment and emotional regulation, and talked about practical things that are critical in first helping children learn how to manage emotions and later what that looks like in friendships, and ourselves.
Currently Reading
Currently Reading
Actionable Gamification
Actionable Gamification
Yu-Kai Chou
Kids These Days
Kids These Days
Dr. Jody Carrington
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