Educator Kasha Duff explores the use of ‘Walking Wednesdays’ to help students enhance their critical thinking and conversational skills during Spoken Language class. “I was focused on getting students away from the desks more often…I realized how much they were lacking that skill, to talk to somebody who you don’t talk to on a regular…
Surrey Teacher Kelly Shuto reflects on the importance of personal self-awareness as the first step in building self-awareness in students and the ability to self-assess core competencies. “My goal as a teacher is to get them to a place where they can help each other before they even think to come to me for help.…
Teacher Jonathan Vervaet discusses the role Number Talks in the classroom plays in boosting confidence in students and changing mindsets towards mathematics. “For teachers that want to use this, they have to believe their students can do this. That was another thing going into this: students had to feel that I believed they could do…