Tanja Ness

Face-to-face #2 Tanja Ness

HMW help 7th and 8th grade students understand how their brain function, anxiety and screen time are interconnected so they can develop healthier digital habits?

A reflection on how your thinking evolved and shifted during the 2nd face-to-face session.

During the second face-to-face I was able to organize my ideas into an actionable plan. It was wonderful to bounce ideas off my peers and hear how others have implemented similar plans into their schools. It was also great to hear about all the plans of others. This as motivating for me.

Insights into your Action Plan and the steps you will take between now and June

  1. Discuss with administration about an advisor time to unfold this plan.
  2. Create presentation
  3. Create activity
  4. Create reflection
  5. Create a way to collect the data

What support you need, and what questions you still have?

Face-to-face session three will draw these out.

 

31 January 2025 by Uncategorized 1

Urgent and Important reflections

I am very excited and grateful to be a part of Cohort 21. Meeting all the participants at our face to face session was motivating and refreshing.

My professional goals for this year. First, I would like to introduce an interdisciplinary study between physical education and science departments. I would like to do this by educating the students on the links between scientific research (the why) and the mental illness/behaviour issues (the effect) of misuse of technology. I would like to create a workshop for the middle school students to educate them and then have them complete a task for them to learn by “doing”.

Pedagogy, belonging and wellbeing (7-12) is where I would like to focus. I feel that what is urgent right now is educating students about the misuse of technology and how it is effecting their developing brain. This is important because the choices and habits they are building at this age will create long lasting and dangerous effects.

Questions I have are:

  1. How can I make this engaging and meaningful for the students
  2. Age group to mainly focus on. Grade 7 and 8?
  3. Where to find the most appropriate resources.
22 October 2024 by Uncategorized 11

Hello world!

Welcome to Cohort 21 Cohort 21.

The mission of this professional development initiative is to build a community of passionate CIS Ontario educators who are interested in refining and redesigning their practice through the exploration of new pedagogies, ideas and learning tools.

4 October 2024 by Uncategorized 1