debor002

    Today I began the First Steps in Math program with four other educators from our division. Several years ago our division sent one of our colleagues to the First Steps in Math training program and he has now spent time each year educating other teachers in our division and was actually trained by David McKillop , who I saw last year in Brandon. My new books (provided by our division): the First Steps in Math Number Sense course book & work book.      First Steps in Math was developed in Australia in the early 1990's as a means to identify the conceptual phases that all students go through and analyze how best to address any gaps that may occur in their understanding. In their own words, First Steps in Math helps teachers : - build or extent their own knowledge of the mathematics underpinning    the curriculum - understand how students learn mathematics so that they can make sound   professional decisions - plan learning experiences that ar...

     I am currently working on my Master's degree in the Curriculum & Planning Stream with a focus on tech integration in the classroom. My first class, Educational Issues, involves the completion of four different assignments: 1 blog post , 1 presentation, and 2 papers.This past Saturday our professor drove up to our community (abut a 2hr drive for him) to watch our presentations. We were each responsible for creating a 15min presentation on a topic of our choice and participated in a Q & A session immediately following.      My presentation topic was Encouraging Student Voice Through Social Media and I chose to use Prezi as my visual element. Although the majority of my information was verbally presented, here is the Prezi I put together to accompany my information:

    Hello! (2004). Uploaded to Flickr by Ken. Available online at:http://bit.ly/1xRryKG      It is hard to believe that a full month and a half has gone by since I  have actively blogged here! On one hand it seems like forever... and on the other hand I don't know where the time has gone because it seems to have flown by so quickly. It is not that I didn't want to be blogging... in fact I've started several posts that, for some reason, I just didn't finish. It seemed as though there were too many aspects pulling my attention away from here and my head just wasn't in it. The past six weeks have included: - Our student council's first spirit week - Our football team's rodeo canteen - Football play-off season - A week home from school with severe flu - Travelling to Brandon, Portage, and Winnipeg for various meetings - The start of hockey season - Finishing our home renovations - Working on my Master's program - Football Awards Night (provincial and local l...