Hello from the two newest Itinerant SEA Teachers:
We are both looking forward to be part of a dynamic team, working with our Interactive Whiteboard Learning Communities, and providing support in schools throughout our diverse Board. We come from different backgrounds but we both have a passion for weaving assistive technology into our teaching and look forward to resource for our colleagues.Itinerant East:I have experience teaching in every panel. I am a former MART, Resource, HSP, classroom and high school teacher. I also ran the language lab and a demonstration classroom.
Two of my favourite quotes are:
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“Ignore and ignorance come from the same root.” ~Katherine Erskine
When I’m not teaching you can find me running, reading or spending time with my family.
Itinerant West:I have experience at the elementary, middle and high school level. I am a former MART, Resource, HSP, LD, ESL, homeroom and computer teacher.
19 years into this career I love teaching more than ever -- especially teaching reading! I love using assistive technology to help children who are struggling with reading so that they can access all the wonderful books and texts that their peers enjoy!
My other loves are family time, animals, enjoying the outdoors, books, swimming and walking.
One of my favourite quotes is:
"No one can do everything, but everyone can do something!" (author unknown).
This poem by Forest Witcraft has always helped me to keep my focus on what matters most:
One hundred years from now
It won't matter
What kind of car I drove
What kind of house I lived in
How much money I had in the bank
Nor what my cloths looked like
BUT
The world may be a little better
Because, I was important
In the life of a child.
Itinerant Central:It's exciting to continue in the SEA department. I joined the team mid-way through last year. I share a similar educational background and experience as my colleagues. We are a solid, enthusiastic and energized group.
When I'm not thinking about student learning, social media, Science and on-line learning, I'm an avid volunteer, photographer and reader (a mix of non-fiction and fiction). I've travelled extensively and enjoy exploring locally and internationally.
A favourite quote: “It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.” - Francis BaconA website I enjoy is from the United Nations World Food Programme:
Free RiceInteractive Whiteboard Learning Communities (IWB LC)There are 20 new Interactive Whiteboard Learning Communities this year. Each community will be meeting four times during the year at their nearest Learning Centre – either Terraview (East) or Burnhamthorpe (West). (Our department also offers training on a variety of software at the Centres. To remind you of their locations please click
here.)
Interactive Whiteboard Learning Communities (IWB LC)
Between each Learning Community session, we are also excited about LC teachers participating in the In-Class sessions this year. We invite teachers from our Learning Communities to volunteer as the Learning Community Host (LC Host) for a session. The LC Host will co-plan and co-teach a lesson with an itinerant SEA teacher with his/her own class. Other members of the LC observe the lesson, which showcases ways to accomodate for their students and to imbed differentiated instruction strategies using the IWB, that was learned in the previous Learning Community session. Following the modeled lesson, the itinerant, LC Host and LC Observers debrief, discuss and reflect on the day's lesson.
