Student Teachers, the Morale Curve & Reconciling Theory and Practice

Featured image courtesy of Alan Levine. “I can tell you with confidence when these dips in the morale curve will occur: six weeks, twelve weeks, six months, twelve months…” Kris Magnusson, paraphrased Of oughts and ises Six weeks into our yearlong teacher-education program, our student teachers have enjoyed a month’s honeymoon and visioning process on […]

Teaching as an Act of Resistence

Featured image courtesy of Flickr user Farruquitown. We’ve been fortunate in our Playworks module to be working with SFU professor Charles Bingham, who has joined us twice weekly to guide our student teachers in developing a theoretical approach to education that will help them in this formative stage of their careers. Charles – who goes by […]

Scenes in Adventure Learning (Part II): Reconnaissance

It is the second day of spring, earlier the same year, and a colleague and I are shivering in soaking clothes in a damp ring of protective salal and cedar above Chin Beach. We are conducting reconnaissance on the Juan de Fuca Trail, assessing its relative difficulty, subjective and objective risks and hazards, and gauging the […]

A Unit Plan of One’s Own: Recommendations

This post is part of a serialized collection of chapters composing my recently completed Master’s of Education degree at the University of Victoria. You can access the other chapters on this site here, and access a pdf of the completed paper on the University of Victoria library space here. This project has allowed me to make […]

Simplicity of Cause

Musings on Modern Learning

Curriculum

Student Teachers, the Morale Curve & Reconciling Theory and Practice

Scenes in Adventure Learning (Part II): Reconnaissance

A Unit Plan of One’s Own: Recommendations

Discussion: Personal, Professional, and Practical Implications

Critical Citizenship for the Digital Age

Toward a Critical Citizenship

Apathy & Oligarchy in the Public Sphere

Citizenship Curriculum as a Response to Digital Shock