Coastal Naturalist Teaching Moment

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Great teachers find ways to know what elements of their lessons can keep, and what to drop.

Helping child with learning challenges get past frustration

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Helping students move past frustrations and acting out, through intuition, calm hands-on action, and music.

Finding our voice – never say never

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Playing a game using stuffed animals for the song Old MacDonald blew other children and the teacher away.

Magical math moment

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I overhead Nikki’s comments about teaching and wanted to capture at least one on video. Here she talks about a math lab experience in her classroom. It’s the kind of insight that math teachers live for. A wonderful AhHa moment.

School principal at age 20…

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Back in the 1956 Rod, aged 20, with just a year of post secondary teacher training, was asked by a supervisor at Normal School to be a principal for a company school at logging camp at Sarita River on the

Training to be Traveler in Your Own Town

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Given to students in a sustainability and urban renewal class at UVic to consider for a month long student field school project to learn how to become a Traveler in Your Own Town, lessening the social isolation prevalent on campus

Traveler in the Classroom: Conversations as brief therapy

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Ideas shared in a Child and Youth Care class at UVic.Their focus this semester is strength based theories, specifically solution focused brief therapy. Here we show how to develop a practice of authentic conversation.

Classroom Moment: connecting with old students

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Making a connection with students from all over the world, that he taught in his 30+ years of working in alternative education.

Game programming in a world-wide classroom

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A teacher at Vic High tapped into the boundless energies and commitment of students truly engaged in a curricular topic.

Community musical production by high school class

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A talented English class took on the writing and production of a musical stage play about the coal mining history of their town. Jack wanted to involve teaching, learning and somehow include more people than just the class members. To