A Professional Growth Plan to Better Instruct a Poetry Unit
During my practicum, I taught a poetry unit during which time I realized that teaching poetry is hard because students…
A Constantly Evolving Educational Philosophy
During the course of my BEd program, I have had to create, adapt, and discuss my educational philosophy, something I…
How I Envision My Future Classroom When I Finally Get a Home of My Own
In a course not so long ago we were asked to describe how we envision our classrooms to look. This…
Creative Poetics
A while ago I posted about my summative assessment for the poetry unit I taught during my practicum. My students really…
The Macbeth One Sentence Project: the Results
For those of you who have been reading my blog, you may know that a while ago I talked about…
About Me
Hi! I am a book-loving, too-much-coffee-drinking, Shakespeare-obsessed English Teacher Candidate at UBC. I have a theatre background with a Diploma…
I Don’t Want to Go.
There is a moment in Doctor Who in which the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) knows that he has to regenerate…
Letting Go of Hands and Handing Students Forks Instead of Spoon Feeding
A few weeks ago I wrote about how I had found myself spoon feeding Shakespeare into the wily minds of…
So Naive…So Very Naive
Ok. I know it has been an incredibly long time since I last reflected and updated this blog but I…