Professional development plan
Never ending improvement! A statement I vividly remember from one of the Partners in Progress conference I attended a few years ago...
Lecturing Creatively
Lectures have the potential of being long, dry, and boring. The look on students faces as they struggle to stay focused, can be so...
Program Accreditation
“Trinity Western University has been seeking accreditation in all provinces for future graduates of its proposed law school but has faced...
Student Resistance to Learning
“Encountering student resistance is particularly troubling” (Brookfield, 2015, Pg. 213). On the first page, in the first paragraph, of...
Exercising Teacher Power Responsibly
In chapter 18 of Brookfields, The Skillful Teacher, he discusses the teachers’ role in exercising their “power” responsibly. I can...
Do Your Students Enjoy Your Class?
In chapter two of Brookfield’s “The Skillful Teacher”, he introduces these four core assumptions about skillful teaching. Skillful...
Keeping Up With The World
If the school system does not restructure its schools, its classrooms, its curriculum, and its delivery of instruction, we are in for a...
Socratic Questioning
Socratic Questioning in its simplest form is asking probing questions to further deepen discussion. Socratic questioning is systematic,...
The Power of Introverts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0KYU2j0TM4 Introverts are so commonly labeled as shy and socially awkward. Yet so many of us have...
The Hidden Curriculum
Hidden curriculum, a term I have never heard before, refers to the unwritten, unofficial, and often unintended lessons, values, and...
