I visited my practicum school last week and there was a TOC in for one of my SA’s. I got to spend the day with her and see what the TOC job entails. We worked together in the classes as she was not a Technology Education teacher so we could not turn on the power in the shops.  I got to test out several of my classroom management skills, getting rambunctious grade 8’s to do exercises, to read and answer questions from  advanced electronic textbooks and to do their homework that was planned for the day! I got to re-think some of the things I have planned and now I am certain I will be doing jumping jacks with my students every day.

I will be spending the next month back at UBC learning all I need to know to become a teacher. One of my classes is on assessment and as I assume it is meant to do it got me thinking about how I will be assessing my students over the 10 weeks that I will be teaching them.  I am mainly fascinated by the idea of assessment AS learning.  Assessment AS learning is basically allowing the student to use assessment to further their learning and to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses.  The concept of this I feel will work very well in tech ed and I am eager to test out different ways to incorporate it.