As April gets ready to depart, so too does the school year. The snow (yes, there is still snow in Muskoka) is beginning to melt away almost as fast as the few remaining days in this school year. I have done so much thinking in recent weeks that I have failed to document and so I will try my best to retroactively recreate it here.
Continue reading Questions and Connections: My Cohort Experience
This has certainly been a long time in the making…
As a reflective practitioner, it can be quite easy to get caught up in educational philosophy and trying to mine each and every one of your decisions for the philosophical stances it either explicitly or implicitly takes. While there is certainly many great things that can come from this process, like all philosophy, there is the potential to be completely paralyzed with the multitude of outcomes and deciding which path is best. It can get to the point where you are so worried about the words you say being misconstrued that it can become challenging to actually say anything definitive. Eventually, it is time to stop philosophizing and take action.
I’m not sure how to feel right now. After one of my most professional productive winter breaks of unit planning and brainstorming while fighting off turkey comas and overbearing relatives, I came back to school to find out that my grade 12 history class – the same class I had been planning to use as my trial for blended learning – was cancelled. Evidently, this is a part of small schools as the school makes timetable adjustments to help students get the prerequisite credits they need. Such is life, and it’s back to the drawing board as I feel passionate about creating an opportunity to bring blended learning into the class.