Monthly archives: March 2017

Teaching Here: Peace River North School District 60

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For teachers in BC, the “times are most definitely a-changing”. The population growth of school-age children is increasing and hundreds of boomer teachers are taking retirement. WorkBC (Government of BC 2015) projected that 24,900 teaching positions will open up between 2015 and 2022. Add to that the recent agreement to restore teachers’ collective agreement language, which will bring thousands of new teachers into classroom and specialist positions in BC school […]

Teaching Here: PART II Central Okanagan School District 23

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“Before going into it, I was always terrified of I was going to make these big mistakes and now [ I know] that those mistakes [are] what gets you to a really great place in teaching.” -Brianna Given, 4th year K/1 Teacher.   SD 23 mentorship participants talk about their experiences in the mentorship program and how these experiences have connected their learning in teacher education to their learning as […]