Monthly Archives: June 2018

Jun 14 2018

Summer Internship Planning Meeting

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A couple of week before the summer internship begins, we will be doing some planning and reflection using the slideshow below. Feel free to bookmark and follow this blog for more updates on Summer Internship.

Please look at Slide 7 and make sure that you add the link to your portfolio blogs or a GDoc where you will house all your reflection and/or evidence collection. Note that I have included the link to my blog and I intend to update this as we go along. We will meet again in August to reflect on our learning throughout the internship process.

Meanwhile, here are some successful planning and reflection conversations from this year’s FIB World of Learning interns. As you can see, they have learned from their week of internship and were able to collect evidence of work experience:

Jun 14 2018

My Year with the Cancer Awareness GC

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They got me at “We need a moderator, or else there won’t be a Cancer Awareness GC next year.” Thanks, Anya, the super recruiter.

But by the grace of Grace went I. And gratefully so. As I met a group of students with a strong network of family and friends who believe that while cancer destroys, it also builds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It builds courage to stand up and declare your story. A friend, a relative, a loved one touched by cancer. A promise to remember and honour them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It builds empathy, running deep and strong, because cancer can only destroy the body, it cannot destroy the human soul.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It builds community. People willing to give of their lunch break and free time to ensure those who are ravaged by the illness will not left wanting.

Most of all, it builds hope.

Hope that someone, somewhere can and will be saved.

 

Perhaps the family left behind, perhaps the patient undergoing chemotherapy.

Perhaps the children or parent needing to go it alone while their loved one is healing.

Perhaps it saves is one, like me, touched by cancer, thinking she survived by chance – slowly believing she has survived for a reason beyond all understanding. And in this inscrutable reason, one can find Love.

Jun 14 2018

PSE Planning During Development Week

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Very impressed with what Louisa has put together for the year to come. My very small contribution was consolidating past resources into this slide presentation:

The process has certainly pushed my thinking further in these ways:

  1. Lifehacks, ELI5, LifeProTips – these subreddits crowdsource wisdom, its success relies on the community that contributes. A community like the one behind PSE is a rich and diverse resource. It is in planning opportunities like these that we see each member shine, contributing from their lens, their perspective, their expertise. The students need to know that these elite group wants them to have the best high school experience possible, that their aim is true.
  2. Concept Based Teaching and Learning – at the end of the day, this means looking for the individual lesson DNAs that need to be activated to ensure a deep and resonating learning experience. It was truly inspiring and  instructive to see colleagues from different parts of the college map out the planning documents. Allowed me to see how CBTL comes to life.
  3. Cognitive Coaching can be easily integrated into these lessons, allowing for the student’s voice to enrich the discussion.

All these make me very excited about teaching PSE, given the time and opportunity. What a wonderful team. So proud to be part of it.