Messages…

Teaching and learning is a journey…

Learn who our learners are…

Many learners have different worldviews and learn in different ways.

It’s all about identity…

Use a variety of instructional strategies as this benefits ALL learners.

Use humour…

Have high expectations for our learners…

Our teaching philosophy guides our planning and instruction…

Metaphors of teaching…an effective way to guide, represent, and tie our philosophy together.

Keep the line of communication open…

Engage our learners…just as we like to be engaged in our own learning…

Cooperative groups provide valuable learning opportunities for our students.

"We should be measuring what kids can do with knowledge, not how many right answers they can give to questions."

Seymour Papert

“I want my students to move away from being ‘shruggers’ to ‘biters’ when they are faced with an issue and they have to bite right into it…”

“Problem-based learning is not easy but it is worth it!”

Create social networks…online and F2F…have our students collaborate and build…

If the bum is numb…the brain is the same.

Include a variety of media to engage your students.

The brain needs meaning, relevance, novelty & emotion.

Our syllabus is a road map…not a contract.

Recognize, respect, and plan for the whole spectrum of learners…

Information literacy and academic integrity is critical…

Remember to have fun in our teaching and learning…(we all have ‘red’)

We have many supports in place to guide us in our journey…

Librarians are a wonderful resource for our students and for us!

Students can’t plagiarize if they are required to ‘transform’ their information…

Educators must critically reflect on our own teachingbecause what we believe is what we create.

All things new and different present new challenges but also offer many possibilities...

Storytelling is a powerful instructional strategy to help us to understand different

ways of being and knowing…

We make sense of our teaching beliefs through metaphors…

We celebrate our learning…

We celebrate community…many

messages to remember…

“You take what you need… the rest you set aside” Carrie Bourassa’s Kokum