UBC IOP Conference May 15, 2010

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Setting the stage: a vision Naomi Ross, and Linda Farr Darling co-create the 2009-10 Growth Plan for UBC’s West Kootenay Teacher Education program. The Growth Plan:

  Sets “place-based” education firmly at the heart of rural teacher education

  Seeks to use the resources found in the West Kootenays to create powerful curricular experiences for teacher candidates

  Demonstrates a commitment to collaborative practice

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The project: Beginning to Tell the Story of the Nikkei

  Tell the story of the Nikkei:

  1942-1945: 22,000 Japanese Canadians interned; camps throughout BC’s West Kootenays

  Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre – a National Historic site and museum located in New Denver, BC

  Integrate place-based education in WKTEP, and with the help of student teachers and faculty, into classrooms across the Kootenays

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The convergence of place…

Linda •  UBC •  Rural Ed •  Place-based

education

•  New Denver

Naomi •  WKTEP •  Faculty

Collaboration

•  Nikkei Centre, New Denver

Terry •  WKTEP

Sessional •  Lucerne School

film project

•  New Denver

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The compelling richness of place

  As you see the following images of New Denver and listen to how this place inspired our educational focus, consider the riches of your place

  What stories are there to tell in your school and community? What community is there to support your place-based education vision?

  After the slideshow, we will pause and with a learning partner, reflect on these questions

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The Place: New Denver

New Denver, BC - on pristine Slocan Lake in the West Kootenays

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Images of New Denver

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The power of collaboration

  “Teaching is a complex endeavour…We believe that together we are better, that working as a member of a team and within a school helps us grow as professionals and supports us in being the best we can be in the classroom, and in having the greatest impact on student learning.

  When teachers work together as interdisciplinary teams … they develop approaches that help students connect to, process, transform, and personalize important concepts and thinking skills. Their schools become learning communities, the most important unit of change.”

Faye Brownlie and Leyton Snellert, “It’s All About Thinking” Portage and Main Press, 2009

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Start with a vision; add partners; watch it grow

•  Foster place – based education •  Cultivate collaboration

•  Inspire student teachers •  Bring history education alive

•  Weave in film and media education •  Create authentic learning experiences

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Kyowakai: Peacefully working together…

WKTEP

Vision and support

26 Student Teachers + 2 Faculty

35 students

+ 3 teachers

6 elders

+ 2 filmmakers

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WKTEP Faculty Collaboration

  Cross curricular connections in Social Studies and English methods courses (LLED314 and SSED 314)

  A Gallery walk of diverse text on the Japanese internment: films, photographs, redress speech, charts and tables, maps, Path of Leaves

  A field trip to the Nikkei Centre with Nobby Hayashi

  Collaborative unit plan assignment on the internment

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26 student teachers co-plan   Each student teacher team developed a unit plan on the

Japanese internment with the aim of teaching it in their 13 week practicum

  Student teachers “loved the collaboration”. They were “able to talk lesson ideas out with colleagues”.

  In their feedback on the course, student teachers identified that “the field trip to the Nikkei Centre and the classes in New Denver allowed them to integrate different types of learning to this area.” They enjoyed “learning how to do field trips” and the “hands-on learning of the Gallery walk on the Japanese Canadian internment”.

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WKTEP student teachers share ideas…

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35 students + 3 teachers   Two teachers and one WKTEP student

teacher collaborate, co-plan and team teach

  Grade 10/11/12s in Social Studies 11, History 12 and English 10-12 work together in multi-grade groups creating 60 – 90 second documentaries

  Synchronicity: an Artists in Residence project with filmmakers Mo Simpson and Catrina Longmuir, “Telling the story of the Nikkei”

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Lucerne student filmmakers

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Artist Statements – a synthesis of student learning

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A sneak preview… Five student films:

  Japanese-Canadian Internment

 Never Lose Hope

  Propaganda

  So Fast

 Winter of 1942 Your feedback? Thinking?

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5 Student Films

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6 elders + 2 filmmakers + community

  Interviews with 6 remaining elders in New Denver filmed by the students and by Mo Simpson and Catrina Longmuir

  The New Denver Kyowakai Society partners with the school, the Village, the Valhalla Fine Arts Society to document the stories

  Public screening of student films along with Animation/Digital Storytelling for adults

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Synergy: the inexplicable magic

  National Historic Site recognition for the Nikkei Centre in 2010

  Kyowakai Society yearns to film elders before it’s too late

  Collaboration between National Japanese History Museum in Burnaby, Nikkei Centre and the school

  www.citizenshift.ca - a voice for youth and shift in perspective towards greater educator involvement

  www.thenhier.ca - a place for innovation in history education

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Your connections?

  Talk with a partner

 Explore your ideas around place-based education, collaboration, synergistic connection

 What can you take away from “Tellling the Story of the Nikkei”?

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Pulling it all together V

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•  Connection beyond the plan

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Next steps   Future WKTEP collaborations – SSED 314 and LLED

314 team teaching

  Possible UBC teacher education collaborations: UBC - WKTEP and UBC – Vancouver (eg: National Museum of Japanese History in Burnaby; Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre – New Denver)

  Teacher Candidate – School Advisor collaborations

  Teacher collaborations online – Online Information Circles using Moodle

  Collaborations online throughout Canada (www.THENhier.ca and www.citizenshift.ca)