Every teacher can probably remember the tumultuous mix of excitement and fear they felt when they had to set up a classroom for the first time. Often early career teachers look to their colleagues with more experience for advice on the best way to approach the task of designing a rich and engaging learning space. In this piece an early career teacher offers some advice that even the most experienced […]
“The presentations were amazing . . . the conversation that happened around each activity was simply the best as it made me feel challenged and reflective.” (Participant Feedback) The third Mentorship Institute was held at UBC in early July. This year’s Institute, titled Leading Together: Sustaining Mentorship, Strengthening Teaching, brought together 80 educators to continue building a provincial network of leaders in service of teachers new to the […]
Mahima Lamba is a first year kindergarten teacher from Delta who took on the bold challenge to address 800 teacher delegates at the 2016 AGM to speak on behalf of the new generation of BC teachers. Mahima describes how beginning teachers value and represent the diversities of students we teach in contemporary classrooms, and powerfully addresses the ‘entitlement’ often used to label her generation. She articulates the quality of help […]
