Lifelong learning, one reflection at a time.
Have you ever gone away for the weekend and realized you owed some feedback to a student while you were gone? I am talking about the type of feedback that has to happen before Monday and not by 11 pm on Sunday night either. This just happened to me and thankfully the student submitted his […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
It’s been a while since I last posted, and that is because there has been a lot going on! Schools get so busy in the final two weeks before the winter holidays, don’t they? If you haven’t yet done so, please do some square breathing: breathe in deeply for a two count, hold it for […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink (buy it) was released nearly ten years ago in 2009. I first learned about it from educators on Twitter and it was one of my summer reads in 2015. If you want to know where I took what I learned from it back when […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
Happy Mole Day, everyone! Did you celebrate Mole Day today? In Chemistry 11 at Rosseau Lake College today was the kick off for our exploration of chemical quantities, the topic also known as stoichiometry. It was serendipity that we started this unit exactly on Mole Day, and I only realized what day it was when […]
Written by Leslie Farooq