Hi all, try using our site by doing a quick introduction of yourself.
Shawna
UPLOADING instructions.
- Go to here and make a new post entry
- Upload by clicking on the “add Media” icon which below the title box.
- Choose “upload files” and choose your file from your computer
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- KEY STEP: Under categories (on the right) check Concept Map Drop Box and choose where you want it to post (e.g. final Cmap, or Final HDLT)
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Hi everyone,
Carrie Bourne, French Teacher Consultant in the Richmond School District.
Looking forward to yet another course with you all and to meeting you Shawna!
I always admire people who can speak another language well enough to teach it! I’m interested in hearing what you do as a French teacher consultant. See you later today.
Hi Shawna,
I’m Simon Kwok and I’m teaching at Eagle Mountain Middle School (grades 7/8) this year in Anmore. Looking forward to meeting you!
Hi Simon, I had to look up Anmore as I hadn’t heard of it before. Looks like a really nice place. Looking forward to meeting you too.
Hello Shawna and the DLC3 crew,
My name is Iren Braich and I am teaching Social Studies 8 and English 9 this year at an IB (public) school in North Vancouver.
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Cheers,
Iren
Hi Iren, I might need to pick your brain about IB assessment as I’m teaching a course in January and some of the teacher candidates are in the IB program. Looking forward to meeting you tonight.
Hello,
I’m Oli.
I’m a Grade 7 French Immersion teacher at L’École Bilingue (VSB). 🙂
See you all tomorrow!
Oli
Hi Oli,
Another French teacher for me to admire, maybe I should try Duolingo ;-).
See you later today.
Shawna
Hey All,
My name is Peter and I teach grade 6/7 in Richmond. I hope everyone had a relaxing summer!
Hi Peter,
I had a great summer–spent time biking in Europe (and spoke at a conference, so not all relaxation). I hope you had a great summer too!
Shawna
Hello
It is Belinda. I hope everyone has had a smooth start to their year. I am a District Administrator for New Westminster learning a ton everyday.
Cheers
Hi Belinda,
I’m looking forward to hearing about what you do as a District Administrator, hoping you will share some of the stuff you are learning.
See you later today.
Shawna
Hello,
My name is Davinder and I teach ELL in Burnaby. Hope everyone had a great summer. See you all tomorrow!
Hi Davinder,
I’m wondering if you have your own classroom or if you work more in a resource teacher capacity? I’d be interested in hearing more about your job.
See you tonight.
Shawna
Hi Shawna,
I’m Sheela and I’m teaching Grade 5/6 in Vancouver. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!
Hi Sheela,
I used to teach that age group, some interesting developmental stuff happening for the girls around that age. We will have to chat.
See you tonight.
Shawna
Hi everyone,
I’m Angela. I teach high school French and French Immersion in Richmond. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow 🙂
Hi Angela,
Wow, there are a lot of French teachers in this small group! Now I am really feeling like I’d better start learning French.
See you later today.
Shawna
Hey DLC3 and Shawna,
Hope everyone enjoyed a great summer! I just began a new position within the VSB, working as a Consultant for SET-BC. I might be a little late to class as I have a conference in Richmond tomorrow that is tentatively supposed to end a little after 4pm. See you all tomorrow!
Hi Joti,
I’m interesting in hearing about SET-BC as I’m not familiar with this program.
Thanks for letting me know you might be late today. See you when you arrive.
Shawna
SET BC stands for Special Education Technology. What an exciting job Joti. I would love to learn more as well.
Hey Everyone,
Hope everyone enjoyed the very short and busy summer and that you had at least a little bit of relaxation time. Time to crank up the volume again. Power on!
Looking forward to challenging my new grade 7 class to create in my constantly evolving makerspace
Todd
Hi Todd,
Hopefully in this course the power will be on and the volume up to just the right amount :-).
I’m interested in learning about your makerspace, I haven’t heard of that before. See you tonight.
Shawna
Hey all,
Looking forward to seeing all of your beautiful faces tomorrow 🙂
I’m teaching grade 6/7 at Wolfe Elementary in Vancouver!
Cheers,
Amy
Hi Amy,
It seems like we have a lot of French teachers AND upper elementary teachers/middle school teachers. As I wrote to Sheela, some interesting developmental stuff happening around those ages. Looking forward to hearing about your classroom.
Shawna
Hi everyone!
I hope you all had a relaxing August! I currently teach grade 3 French immersion at Brantford Elementary in Burnaby. I have actually had Shawna as my instructor for two courses during my B.Ed. at UBC. 🙂
Hi Katilin,
Oh no, you know all my “tricks”, I’m scared!! I’m assuming it was the development and the assessment courses–were you in the large lecture for development?
See you (again) in a few hours.
Shawna
Hi Everyone, Hard to believe we are already back to class. Hope the start of the school year is going well for everyone. Shawna, I teach in the Surrey School District and I think I will be teaching a straight grade 2 class for the first time after years in grade 3 and 4. See everyone in a little while.
Hi Renuka,
Are you happy about the change or do you prefer the 3/4s? I taught most elementary grades but tend to prefer the younger ones–maybe because I’m so immature 😉
See you in a couple of hours.
Shawna
Hi, I’m Jenn Mathis. I teach at Talmey Elementary in Richmond, probably grade 5/6. It’s a small school, so our class composition can change significantly from year to year. I’m also excited about educational psychology :).
Hi Jenn,
I’m glad you are excited about Ed Psych after the first class. I hope I can keep your excitement up the whole term :-).
Looking forward to a great term with you and your group.
Shawna
Hi all,
Better late than never right? I am teaching at Port Moody Secondary School this year. Accounting 11, Marketing 11/12, and Business Ed 9. Looking forward to this semester.
Thanks
Cherie
Hi Cherie,
I’m glad you are looking forward to the semester after the first class–always a good sign. You and your cohort were a ton of fun that first class, lots of laughs during the name introduction activity, I can’t wait to learn more about all of you.
Shawna
Hey people, I’m a shop teacher at Fraser Heights Secondary in Surrey. I’m teaching pre-engineering 10, maker 9 & 11, drafting 11/12, tech explorations 8, and coaching robotics this semester (next semester’s course load is pretty packed, it’s going to be a doozie). I’m excited to announce that I have 6 EDR teams, and 3 IQ teams, totalling 9 teams!!! Yay! Go robots!
Obviously my reading skills need work, because I didn’t see that we were supposed to introduce ourselves. I think I’m still in rapid lit reading mode from the summer.
Cheers to a great semester!
Well, the introduction part was kind of optional so no worries about missing it. What a crazy busy term you have, but sounds so interesting. You’ll have to fill me in on what EDR teams are.
See you next week.
Shawna
Ok totally late to the party… Robyn Evans, Teacher Librarian at Irwin Park Elementary School (K-7) in West Vancouver. Have spent the past week trying to be an Anthropologist… tough work!
Thanks for the laugh Robyn–yes stepping back and looking at things with “new eyes” is not easy. We will discuss more tonight 🙂
Shawna