Teaching adults… lessons learned

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Lessons learned while teaching English to 20-30 year olds in South Korea.

The word for today: Vacuum….

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Loni’s tutoring builds on students’ curiosity.

Learning outside the box

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A parent and teacher reflect on the challenges for diverse learning styled students in our schools, and power of wilderness learning.

Beatitude Teaching Strategy

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Using a child’s fortune teller to reinforce modern translations of the Beatitudes, and other spiritual truths.  As of June 1/22 this video has been viewed 11000+ views since it was uploaded.

The Heart of an Educational Assistant….

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She took a college course on being a community/ education worker. When she arrived at the school for the first time, she had four meetings with concerned admin and teachers about a special student coming that day. Here she shows

Classroom Moments – got your back

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A teacher finds great support from one of her grade 8 student.

Moving learning and performance to the next level

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After four years in the classroom she uses personal and professional reflection to help her students and her own teaching get to deeper with the material, to reach the next level in their learning and performance.

Bruce Ravelli: 4 pages that changed a life

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I meet a number of profs by asking students which profs have stood out to them. Bruce was one of those. Here he shares a ‘Classroom Moment’ in his career A 4 page article, ‘The Promise’ by Charles Wright Mills

Young teacher: Precious moments in the wilderness

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A new teacher graduate is dropped into a classroom for a maternity leave. Passionate about the rewards of being in the wilderness she ends up organizing a class trip to a Scouts Canada adventure camp.

” I knew I had them” when they asked for the lavender oil

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A new teacher finds big rewards while offering yoga at a residential program for challenged youth.