Week of October 6th, 2020
Grade 7 student leading class on geography presentation.
WELCOME TO OCTOBER!
WHAT’s UP? – This week’s checklist (From Brightspace)
Module 4 Checklist
Sep 30, 2020 – Oct 6, 2020
1. We invite you to watch Laurent Cantet’s 2008 award-winning film entitled Entre Les Murs (The Class) (you can go through the University of Ottawa system or rent it via youtube (https://youtu.be/xmFdSGYhzIo) for $3.99
2. Read chapters three and four of Is Everyone Really Equal?
3. Your learning log prompt:
What strikes you about this film as important in relation to one or more of the concepts that are introduced to us in Chapter Three on Culture and Socialization and Chapter Four on Prejudice and Discrimination?
If you are not able to watch the film, please see the alternate prompts below that you can also choose from to respond to our book club work this week:
“Perceptive One” – Find a quote or passage from the book that gives the reader an insight into the book’s greater meaning. You must be insightful here. Don’t simply choose a quote that relates to course content, pick one that you can discuss (and write about in your learning log).
“Wildcard Role” – Find a newspaper article that relates a current event to a theme/topic/idea/moment discussed in the book. If you find a newspaper article, provide us with a link. Write a paragraph to explain the connection between the article and the book.
“The Insider” – Ask (and write about) the ways that teachers can use this book to inform the design of equitable learning. Provide at least two recommendations for instructional practice informed by your reading of the book, with a justification for how these instructional practices equip students to be more critical, more informed, more aware, more in control of their learning.
“Vocabulary Virtuoso” – Find three concepts or ideas that you find suitably challenging or educationally significant. Write down the concepts or ideas and describe how they connect across the curriculum, whether in politics, the arts, business, technology, education, sports, or somewhere else? Explain the concept or idea and then explain how you’ve connected it to the curriculum.
Sections Q/QQ respond here
Sections H/HH respond here
Sections F/FF respond here
4. Please review the Standards of Practice for the teaching profession in Ontario Foundations of Professional Practice, August 2016
5. Please take a look at the Digital Hub website
North Poll Results – Office Hours
Hi everyone – for now, we will go for office hours on Wednesday afternoon from 1:00 – 3:00PM. We will be open to changing this if the structure of the program shifts later on in the year.
We will send you a separate invitation through Teams to this recurring meeting.
AGENDA FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6th
Starting at 10:00 am Tuesday
Zoom link to come
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- Check-ins
- Quick review of last week’s PLC and questions
- Sensoy and DiAngelo and “The Class”- chapters 3 and 4 Critical Thinking vs Opinion (Break-out Group discussion and report back)
- Tech demo – Kahoot
- Digital Hub and Google Folder
- Housekeeping – Office Hours
NAGGING INSTRUCTORS’ SECTION
Please make sure you have created your U of Ottawa Zoom account –
Below are the OTF links posted in their presentation:
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- Main OTF website – www.otffeo.on.ca
- Our Twitter handles – @otffeo @otf_pd @OTFpresFEO
- Special Education Gateway – www.teachspeced.ca
- OTF Curriculum Forum – access to 50+ subject and division associations: https://www.otffeo.on.ca/en/services/curriculum-forum/
- Survive & Thrive website for beginning teachers – www.survivethrive.on.ca
- Safe@School website on bullying prevention, equity and inclusion – www.safe@school.on.ca
- Parent Engagement – www.parentengagement.ca
- OTF Connects live webinars for teachers by teachers – https://www.otffeo.on.ca/en/learning/otf-connects/
- Financial Literacy – www.inspirefinancialliteracy.ca
LINDA’s PADDLE RUBRIC
as described below on the professional learning assessment tool created by the Yukon Department of Education September 6, 2019.
TECH TIPS
How to get started: “Go to getkahoot.com and create a free account. You can search the public quiz games or create one of your own. I’m not even that tech-savvy, but I played around with it and figured it out. It’s pretty simple.” —Dawn K.
Warm up the class with a game. “I use it as my class starter. I do a quick five questions on topics we’ve covered or material learned from a previous class.” —Darenda B.
Conclude class with a quick round. “You can use it at the end of class or after notes for a formative assessment. I always have to do it at the end because they get too excited if I do it in the middle of class.” —Nikki S.
Zero in on the needs of individual students. “You can get detailed reports of which child missed which questions!” —Kelly D.
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September 26, 2020 To November 1, 2020
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Have an “out-of-house” experience on a premium small group Bubble Tour!
We take up to 12 participants on these limited-time, socially-distanced versions of our Original Haunted Walk of Ottawa and Haunted Ottawa Jail Tour. These tours are a safe and fun way to enjoy some fresh air and hear some great Ottawa ghost stories.
Attilio’s flat lay – Thanks!
(excerpt) Back to the flat lay, my dog is a big fluff ball (family choice for the doodle). We named him Lucca (quaint walled city in Italy, as well as means light). When he was a puppy we had a black lab named Micah (black flecks in rock). They used to fetch sticks in the water together and swim back to shore carrying the same stick.