Surrey Educators share how an intentional ‘hands-on, minds-on’ approach can help students communicate and share their thinking with one another. “Understanding 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 teacher Darcy Booth discusses the development of Core Competencies through coding and robotics. “It’s an opportunity for them to put all of the core competencies to use. I feel like we’re constantly talking about communicating with each other, problem solving, critical thinking and they get to see that and what it really means and…

Story Workshop is a classroom structure initially developed at Opal School to support language and literacy. Evolving over time, teachers are finding that the use of rich materials such as clay, paint, props, or blocks can play an integral role in language development, and strongly support children to see themselves as storytellers and authors.…