Exactly one month ago today, I was sitting in the Ottawa Little Theatre, on my first day of school. While there, I heard accounts of what to expect from my time in the Education Program from three different recent graduates of this same program. They recounted tales of stress, deadlines, and more work than we could imagine. They also told us we would not believe how quickly it would all fly by. I can honestly say, they were right on both counts! The speed at which this past month has passed is unbelievable. We are non-stop learners! Everyday we think, question, create, understand and repeat. Just as before, I am posting here again as a demonstration of the beginnnings of my understandings about a specific aspect of my learning. You will find attached to this post a presentation which I created in collaboration with three of my B.Ed. classmates. The purpose of this assignment was twofold: a) to give us as individuals the opportunity to delve deeply into one single method of teaching instruction and present our findings to our classmates, and b) to learn more about a variety of teaching methods through the presentations delivered by all the separate class groupings. All of the methods of instruction which we will examine have received support in the educational research literature as "effective" in supporting student learning. The style of this presentation is called 'Ignite' (for a brief introduction as to what Ignite-Style presentations look like, check out http://igniteshow.com/). An authentic Ignite-style presentation has 20 slides which automatically advance every 15 seconds. For our purposes, we have 8 informational slides (with 2 additional slides to indicate the references which informed our work), which automatically advance every 30 seconds. We have no control over the advancement of our slides, meaning the timing and delivery of our presentation needs to be pretty smooth! Once again, I am a work in progress :) I absolutely do not have all the answers, but I am having such an amazing time in my quest for the questions. I hope you enjoy my work, and as always, your feedback is encouraged! Thank you. Miss Coleman
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AuthorJessica Coleman holds a Bachelor of Education as well as an Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences, both from the University of Ottawa. She is an Ontario College of Teachers certified teacher, currently working towards a Masters of Education degree at uOttaw, as well. Archives
September 2018
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