“How can we do this better? How can we grow this?” are the questions that Dr. Leyton Schnellert asks himself at the end of each year when he thinks about how to design more meaningful learning opportunities for teacher-candidates at UBC Okanagan. Recently the answer was to create a collaborative inquiry group that focused on the the opportunities presented with the implementation of BC’s “renewed” curriculum. The group met once […]
Strengthening Our Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation: Engaging Teacher Candidates and School Advisors in ReconciliACTION Projects in the Classroom – Dr. Jan Hare, Melanie Nelson and Christabel Shaler Dr. Jan Hare described the genesis and process of this powerful and sustainable process for supporting teacher candidates and their school advisors in implementing Indigenous Ways of Knowing in classrooms. She described how the process started as face-to-face meetings […]
From the Outside Looking in: Observations about Mentor Learning in Delta School District #37 Recently Suzi Gould (@SuziGould2) and Rebecca Sweeney (@BeccaSweeney) from CORE Education in New Zealand visited BC to share the development of their game-like inquiry tool, Catalyst, with BC educators. During their time in BC they attended a mentor learning session in the Delta School District. They participated in the learning and discussion and uncovered many […]
