Jessica Kestell

The Blind leading the Blind!

Posted by jkestell in Long Practicum, Practicum

This week in my grade 8 Foods & Nutrition class I had my students direct one another in a blindfolded cookie lab! YES…blindfolded! This semester in Foods & Nutrition 8 we are working with questions. There is one over all BIG QUESTION followed by 4 Guiding Questions that all lead back to the BIG QUESTION. So this week we were talking about success in the kitchen. I posed the questions – “What essential skills determine success in the kitchen?”, and thinking about our senses, “What does a foods class look like, sounds…read more

Apr.04

Week 3

Posted by jkestell in Blog Post, Long Practicum, Practicum

This week I picked up Culinary Arts 11/12 (CA 11/12), which at first had me very nervous. With my back ground in cooking being strictly “home cooking” the work culinary had me slightly spooked. However I have quickly realized that I have nothing to be worried about and everything to be excited about. This group of students are very keen and excited to cook. While some of these have not been in a cooking class since grade 9, that hasn’t stopped then from being curious, enthusiastic, and compassionate towards their (green) teacher! Their…read more

Feb.20