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The week of November 23rd, 2020

 

WINTER AND FIRST PRACTICUM ARE HERE!

 

COMMUNICATION

Here is the link to the syllabus – this gets updated each week as we progress through the course. Please see Pages 14 – 26 – week-by week

(From Tracy Crowe) Survey – We have received 153 responses to our survey, which is just short of 50% of Year 1 candidates. Your feedback, as well as the information collected by FESA, has been very valuable and we have started to work on addressing your concerns for the second semester. We will share the results next week.  It would be great to hear more of your voices. If you would like to add your opinion, the survey link is https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/QK3VV2S.

 

WHAT’SUP

Class tomorrow at 10:00 am – we will send out the Zoom link first thing Tuesday plus the link to our slides.

Placement information should be coming out today (Monday)

 

REMINDERS

  1. PRACTICUM GUIDE – read and be familiar with
  2. PRACTICUM BINDER – SHARE TRACKER 
  3. November 17 PLC– It was great to see over 300 participants in Noa Daniel’s session. The slides and the recording are under PLC   Creating Equitable Learning Environments For All on BrightSpace. 

Blogging – Introduction to the Digital Hub

BLOGGING – how to use widgets

 

Some blogs for modeling and for professional development:

www.cultofpedagogy.com

https://tweenteacher.com/blog/

https://www.edutopia.org/latest

https://www.edutopia.org/discussion/9-reasons-why-teachers-should-blog

(From Tracy Crowe) Academic Challenges– We know that its is crunch time, many of your larger assignments are due.  If you are experiencing challenges completing your work by the deadline or have outstanding assignments, please speak to your professors about possible accommodations or extensions. If this issue is extending to a number of courses and may require additional University resources, please feel free to contact David Trumpower or Tracy Crowe at teached@uottawa.ca. 

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The week of November 16th, 2020

 

Happy Monday, everyone. November in Ottawa. Hmmmmm. We hope you enjoyed and benefitted from the session last week. Thanks for your questions and input.

 

 

WHAT’s UP

We are now at Module 9.

From Linda for this week:

  1. This week is blog writing week (BLOG #1) and we hope you will check in with your faculty supervisors if you need any support. This blog post will be a great addition to your digital hub and will likely become one of many by the time you finish the Bachelor of Education program.
  2. This week in the Urban Communities Cohort we also are focusing on your Digital Hub. The article below is important for you as future teachers and fits in well with the work we have done on Sensoy and DiAngelo.

Ontario Teachers Can Now Face Consequences For Racism

ANOTHER article that continues the conversations in Sensoy and DiAngelo:

And, here is a link to an exchange with the author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, to whom Sherwyn made a reference on the Principals’ Panel.

 

3. Also, this week, another survey, this one from Tracy Crowe:

Today you should have received an email with a link to our Year 1 survey. We hope you will take the time to complete it. The survey can be found at this link https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/QK3VV2S 

This is helpful information for us at the UCC, so please fill this in – thanks!

 

CURIOUS, WATCHING (no longer nagging) Instructors

  • Blog #1
  • start your Digital Hub – your library as a developing educator
  • As you get ready for this week and your Digital Hub, here is a video we made especially for you – please give this a view.

  • read the Practicum Guide for the big ideas and expectations. Remember, this is the first session of practicum. Your focus will be on observing, learning, reflecting and developing a partnership with your AT and students.
  • MOOC on on-line teaching and learning

TECH TIP

Top 10 reasons teachers should blog

This has some good reasons why teachers should blog – taken from

Start Your Teaching Blog: Resources, Advice, and Examples in Edutopia

GOOD NEWS

Professor Molly Shoichet of the University of Toronto has just won the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal, Canada’s highest honour for science and engineering research. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

 

 

 

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