Here’s all the news that’s fit to print from today’s class:
Practicum Preferences Information Gathering
I used the questions in the PPT presentation linked below to determine your preferences with respect to a practicum placement. Thanks for the information:
Organizing the Middle School Tours
You had about 15 minutes to look over the Middle School Tours schedule and develop a transportation plan with the other TCs in your group. Here’s the list of groups…
and a map of the buildings you’ll need to find around SD #43 (Coquitlam):
Did someone say tour? I thought so. Here’s a clip of one of the lowest point from Spinal Tap’s 1980s era comeback tour. It’s not quite as low as serving as the opening act for a puppet show, but I reckon it’s close!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukuIwXwCyOI[/youtube]
Now where was I? Oh, ya. We’re visiting the four schools listed below. Each name is linked to that school’s website:
- Como Lake Middle School
- Ecole Kwayhquitlam Middle School
- Minnekhada Middle School
- Ecole Pitt River Community Middle School
EDUC 315: Pre-Practicum Experience Goals and Expectations
After a free write on what you expected to see, do, feel (emotions) and hear (but NOT touch or smell!), we went over the goals of EDUC 315. Here’s the handout with those goals… and much more!
Bob Gilmour – the FA who will be supervising some of you during your practica – and I asked you to consider the following: What EDUC 315-related goal are you:
- Most looking forward to achieving?
- Likely to find most challenging to accomplish?
We wrapped with a piece from Bob on “the spirit of inquiry” versus “the spirit of judgement”. We urged you to use the former in lieu of the latter. Asking questions about what you see provokes thinking about what is happening and what led to it. Judgements tend to shut off analysis and critical thinking and are very often based on incomplete information. In essence, keep your eyes, ears, and your mind open as you tour the middle schools over these next two Tuesdays.’
’til next time.
– Lawrence