Marcia Teaches...: 2012

Sunday, 13 May 2012

LINC 5 Resource

I'm all excited because I will finally be teaching a class for a whole month. There is a temptation to regard it as "make work" or "casual" because it is summer conversation. This is something that I truly want to avoid, so I'm taking it very seriously!

What I'd like to do for the next little while is just document my planning as I step into this "new for me" role. Teaching is NOT the same as subbing. It is also not the same as doing a practicum. There are evaluation tasks that I need to learn. But for now, lets start with the planning stages.

Here's the link to the LINC 5 pdf. that I'm reading today: http://www.norquest.ca/pdf/edresources/linc5_aug08.pdf. I hope it works, because I know I don't want to download the whole thing to my computer at this point!

Here are my current thoughts for the month that I will be teaching:
July 2 - 5: Canada and Introductions
July 9 - 12: Stampede (We're in Calgary and it's the 100th Anniversary so this is important!)
The last two weeks are up in the air. I will leave that until I get a better feel for the students and their goals.

As I said, this is a new process for me, so I want to document that for future reference. Any ideas are welcome.

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Learning from Each Other!

Today I am enjoying the workshop sponsored by ATESL which has been very helpful in introducing us to techonology in the ESL and other classrooms as well.

Knowing how to make a pod cast, or a screenshot has value in other teaching areas as well. I'm going to be playing with this at home. I'm sure there will be vast improvements over time, so I'd like to post one of my first videos, made in class, here. Just as a frame of reference to show you how practice does make it better and faster!