Professional Development
The best teacher is a good learner. My favourite thing about this career is that you learn something new everyday, I am constantly being taught by my students, my colleges, and the world around me.
An important part of teaching is being open to every opportunity that will make you a better teacher. From professional development to student driven inquiry focuses to personal experiences, every opportunity can be a learning opportunity. Creating a classroom environment that facilitates care, trust, respect and integrity
Leading Effective Teams
April-May 2021
Teacher leaders, when empowered, will be the most effective tool in ensuring transformative and sustained change. From this course, I learned how to foster greater interdependency among team members and develop a sustainable collaborative team culture. Teacher lead teams that communicate effectively and work interdependently improve student learning!
Making the PYP Happen IB Cat. 1
October 2019
In this workshop, I explored my own teaching practices and reflected on how to develop the capabilities of a PYP teacher. By exploring the PYP framework, I learned to connect voice, choice and ownership and made connections within the IB community. I developed my understanding of learning and teaching in a transdisciplinary, concept-driven curriculum and how to implement this in my classroom.
Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum
Updated every year, most recently April 2021
The Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum (KS:CPC) is a respectful relationships and child safety curriculum for children and young people from age 3 to year 12.
The KS:CPC provides age and developmentally appropriate strategies to help children and young people keep themselves safe. It has gained a world class reputation due to its depth of content, breadth of learning, contemporary nature, and the requirement for explicit training.
Seesaw Pioneer
March 2021
I completed an online training course and as a Seesaw Pioneer, I have access to the collective knowledge of the Seesaw community, opportunities to learn alongside other Seesaw enthusiasts and gain access to additional resources, training, and support. Since my completion of the pioneer course, I have participated in 10 additional online modules and trainings
High Impact Differentiation Workshop
December 2019
12-hour professional development course on differentiation, inquiry-based mathematics approaches, and practical examples to integrate those strategies into my planning and teaching
Strategies to Support Individuals with ASD Workshop
April 2019
A workshop exploring practical strategies to support students on the Autism Spectrum in the classroom. This workshop also explored the benefit of Universal Design for Learning and differentiation for all students.
Meeting the Needs of ELLs Workshop
April 2019
A workshop exploring strategies and tools to teach English Language Learners and how to create a welcoming and inclusive classroom
Educators Abroad Program Track
September 2018- April 2019
This program prepared me with theoretical, practical, and scholarly development to teach in international schools. Throughout this course, I learned to address the complexities of teaching and learning in ELL, multicultural and diverse contexts in Canada and abroad. The focus was on theories that support teachers in their understanding of the complexities associated with teaching in cross-cultural contexts, such as cultural variables, “third culture kids”, service learning, professional development and diversity consciousness. The class discussed current literature in the field of overseas teaching and cross-cultural teaching and learning.