One of our goals for improvement relates to communication with parents. This web page includes many links to 5-minute videos on the topic of building parent-teacher partnerships, and links to blog articles, resources, and collaboration printable documents as well. If that is too much to consider right now, read the article on teacher wellness, also linked on the same page. See if you can find the quotable quote about the typical lizard-brain response that says “fight-flight-flock-freeze-appease” here:
At the U of C webinar last week, the faculty presented many Indigenous Education Resources. The team plans to continue updating their website with even more resources. Different categories divide the countless teaching resources, of benefit to both teachers and students. This is the main page, from which you can choose a category to begin exploring:
There were so many articles and sketchnotes to choose from on this educator’s blog, but this specific post seemed highly appropriate for a time such as this. Just think about it: there is no such thing as neutral in our world. Explore some of the other articles as well, and be inspired for some deep reflection and introspection:
Sometimes seeing the world through the eyes of our students helps us reach them to teach them. This video clip showing the point of view of a 16-year-old autistic student really changed the way I see particular behaviour of certain students, while the other link leads to more information and videos. I’m sure there is something for everybody on that page:
Monday Memo 