Navigating the Classroom: My Third Year of Teaching Studies

Preserving Culture and Pioneering Education: The Tsuut'ina First Nation Journey This digital story sheds light on the journey of the Tsuut'ina Nation, focusing on the Chiila Elementary School, where education, tradition, and technology merge to create a unique and thriving learning environment. Find my Digital Story HERE

  Blog #4 - Coding for Kids Scratch - Crayon Colouring Activity I used a Scratch creation that I created for my lesson plan. This Scratch activity is an interactive colouring sheet where you can individually select each colour crayon using "Left Click" and draw as your heart desires. To place the crayon back after colouring hit the "Space" key on your keyboard, then proceed to choose your next colour. Using the "Slider" you can change the colour size. The "Erase All" button will remove any active work on the page. To "Erase" individual lines you can use the white crayon. Clicking "New Page" will cycle through the 4 different available page selections. Please try it out and let me know what you think! For my lesson plan, I incorporated information and communication technology and visual arts.  In this lesson, students learn to use technology responsibly while following classroom procedures. Students also learn to understand the...

Today I participated in sharing my mini lesson with my peers! I really enjoyed creating and presenting this mini lesson with my group.  It was great to experience facilitating and creating the lesson surrounding technology. Although I am fairly familiar with technology I have never experienced teaching a lesson based on or with technologic integration. This was a great trial lesson and helped me understand what I can expect for future lessons. This lesson also helped me generate ideas for my future lessons and I was able to use my peers lessons to brainstorm my own personal integration towards my practicum.  During my lesson teaching I felt very confident leading the first part of our lesson and then supporting my peers in completing their section. I believe our lesson was thoroughly planned and met all of the required goals. I am very proud of my group! I love what we created in the time we had :) Link To My Lesson Plan:    Here The app my group decided to use for o...