Inspiring Educators Everywhere
About a year ago I decided to check out a Birding Beijing social event here in Beijing, China. I do a great deal of work within my school with regards to environmental and nature education, but I wanted to meet people from outside the international school world who like-minded. It was a fantastic event and... Continue Reading →
This evening I was following the #asiaED chat on Twitter and the topic was co-teaching and co-planning. The theme centered around the positives and challenges of working in this type of education model. This, of course, got me to thinking about my experiences co-teaching and co-planning. I currently work at an international school where I... Continue Reading →
I have always been a huge advocate of outdoor learning and outdoor play. I think it stems from my upbringing in rural Canada and I grew up with a close connection to the outdoors and nature. That coupled with the sadness I have felt my entire international teaching career, working in large cities where... Continue Reading →
I am really excited to start blogging here again. I felt as if life was just too busy for too long to do so, but as I find moments of balance here and there I like to share my thoughts and feelings as a teacher here. Recently I have been going through a bit of... Continue Reading →
Many years ago, in the early days of my teaching career, I don’t have many memories of teacher collaboration where I taught. In the pre-Google era, we would copy worksheets from books of blackline masters on shelves in the resource room and make our own worksheets using a word processor. We would make these things,... Continue Reading →
Teaching can be a very rewarding and stressful job. Those who have not walked a mile in a teacher’s shoes would simply never understand the 900 plus decisions we must make in the run of an average day. You have reports to write, assessments to do, a class to teach, social skills to teach, relationships... Continue Reading →
