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A Place To Learn: February 2013
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A Place To Learn. Using imagination to engage and inspire young hearts and minds. February 05, 2013. Time flies" when we're having fun! Most children these days have no concept of what time is, how to manage it, or even how to "read" an analog clock. I know what they are thinking, "Why do we even need to know this stuff! So, rather than just giving my students a number of worksheets with a thousand clock faces on them to complete; I wondered, how I could bring the concept of measuring time to life? In Lo...
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A Place To Learn: February 2014
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A Place To Learn. Using imagination to engage and inspire young hearts and minds. February 08, 2014. Journey into the wonderful unknown. No matter how many years I have been teaching, despite awards and recognition; I can honestly admit that things do not always go smoothly as planned, and I continue. To learn from my experiences - because I have to! There is a chapter that intrigued me a lot, "From 'Unknown Questions' Begins a Wonderful Education". The new ministry documents "Enabling Innovation (2012)".
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A Place To Learn: April 2013
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A Place To Learn. Using imagination to engage and inspire young hearts and minds. April 08, 2013. Learning in Depth - a journey into the unknown. What happens when we take on and attempt to implement a new project or idea? Well, there is the initial excitement, interest and many intended goals and hopes; however this can soon give way to confusion, regret and even despair. So what do we do when we face challenges, obstacles and/or resistance? Which maintains a core belief that imagination. Is a foundatio...
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A Place To Learn: My Space Walk: one small step
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A Place To Learn. Using imagination to engage and inspire young hearts and minds. December 07, 2014. My Space Walk: one small step. Space The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life; new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before! Introduction - a new position. Which was set to begin the next week at. A brand new middle school! What exciting and terrifying news! The best way I can think of ...
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A Place To Learn: December 2014
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A Place To Learn. Using imagination to engage and inspire young hearts and minds. December 07, 2014. My Space Walk: one small step. Space The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life; new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before! Introduction - a new position. Which was set to begin the next week at. A brand new middle school! What exciting and terrifying news! The best way I can think of ...
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A Place To Learn: May 2013
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A Place To Learn. Using imagination to engage and inspire young hearts and minds. May 13, 2013. Differentiation: How do we inspire life-long learners and give them hope for the future? I am a life-long learner. So what does that mean exactly to you? Paulo Freire famously wrote in:. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Is more than just an instrument which makes dialogue possible. within the word we find two dimensions,. Likewise Vygotsky, in his book:. Therefore when I use a word such as differentiation. I hope yo...
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A Place To Learn: What if we had the time? Myths, Maps & Multiplication.
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A Place To Learn. Using imagination to engage and inspire young hearts and minds. February 06, 2012. What if we had the time? Myths, Maps and Multiplication. I thought I would share more about what has been happening as we continue with our island theme this year. I say "we" because the ongoing project I planned for my students about islands has started to take on more of visible shape beyond my. So I ask, what if we gave our students opportunities to go deeper into particular concepts? Perhaps you will ...
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A Place To Learn: Beetles and Math?: Lessons in Binary Oppositions
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A Place To Learn. Using imagination to engage and inspire young hearts and minds. November 29, 2011. Lessons in Binary Oppositions. I will start with a personal reflection. When I was completing my undergraduate degree at SFU I had to work part-time. The money I was making was suppose to go to my coursework and books; however I always managed to find an old VW Beetle that caught my eye, and I had to buy it! The before - destroyed version". The finished - created version". My exhausting beetle project".
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A Place To Learn: journey into the wonderful unknown
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A Place To Learn. Using imagination to engage and inspire young hearts and minds. February 08, 2014. Journey into the wonderful unknown. No matter how many years I have been teaching, despite awards and recognition; I can honestly admit that things do not always go smoothly as planned, and I continue. To learn from my experiences - because I have to! There is a chapter that intrigued me a lot, "From 'Unknown Questions' Begins a Wonderful Education". The new ministry documents "Enabling Innovation (2012)".
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A Place To Learn: January 2013
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A Place To Learn. Using imagination to engage and inspire young hearts and minds. January 11, 2013. New Year, New ideas.and a few old ones too! Over the Christmas holidays I decided to rearrange my room - yet again. To those who have worked with me over the years this is nothing new, but for each year of students it is! If not, then get rid of it, it's just wasting space! Student made stained-glass covering our classroom window. 65279;. 65279; As a fun way to gre...This is something I never did la...