Surrey Educators share how an intentional âhands-on, minds-onâ approach can help students communicate and share their thinking with one another. âUnderstanding that children are active and that they learn best through play, you begin to look for ways to have numeracy instruction as playful as other parts of the day. So when you see children…
Surrey Educator Carley Brockway and her students discuss how a focus on instructional strategies promotes engagement and a deeper understanding in the mathematics classroom. âWe use whiteboards and as they are working on these whiteboards I will walk around the class and discuss the strategies they are using. When I have the opportunity to see…
Educator Kasha Duff explores the use of âWalking Wednesdaysâ to help students enhance their critical thinking and conversational skills during Spoken Language class. âI was focused on getting students away from the desks more oftenâ¦I realized how much they were lacking that skill, to talk to somebody who you donât talk to on a regular basis.…
Surrey educator Annie Ohana weaves together priority practices of curriculum design and instructional strategies to activate the power of place-based learning. “There’s limitations to these walls. If the student’s mature enough to choose the place, to have an understanding of some sort of narrative, some sort of story that they want to learn more about.…