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By Jenn on January 12, 2012
5:00 PM 01/10/2012 DELTA – A feast was held today to celebrate the signing of a second Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement (AEEA) for Delta, with partners committing to support Aboriginal student success and bring a greater awareness of Aboriginal culture and history to all students. Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreements are a commitment by school districts, […]
By Jenn on January 11, 2012
Writing Power: Teaching Writing Strategies that Engage Thinking “Writing Power shows teachers how to encourage students to consider the reader’s thinking as they write. The book is organized around five thinking strategies — Connect, Question, Visualize, Infer, and Transform. Lessons based on these strategies illustrate how students can engage and invite their readers’ thinking through […]
By Jenn on January 10, 2012
BCTF Teacher Newsmagazine: Volume 24, Number 3, November/December 2011 Like lambs to the slaughter: The erosion of the cultured citizen By Sean M. Douglas “I have never let school interfere with my education” wrote Mark Twain as he considered his own understanding of the world; but how long before someone holds a mirror up to public […]
By Jenn on January 10, 2012
The Vancouver Sun January 9, 2012. 3:41 pm • Section: Report Card, STAFF The B.C. College of Teachers is now history, and a new teacher regulation branch of government opened its doors Monday. Find its website here. The branch has issued a call for nominations of teachers from five regions to serve as members of a new 15-member B.C. […]
By Jenn on January 5, 2012
Universal access to all knowledge will be one of humanity’s greatest achievements. We are already well on the way! from Stewart Brand’s: Brewster Kahle’s 30 November Long Now Talk For fun and inspiration, check out the Internet Archive for the more than 3 million books (adding 1,000 titles per day), 100,000 concerts and 1 million recordings (3 new […]
By Jenn on January 4, 2012
B.C. schools should group students by ability rather than age, promote personalized learning but not at the expense of basic skills, eliminate standardized tests and provide more frequent reports to parents about student progress. Those are among the ideas submitted to the Education Ministry after it made a public appeal for suggestions about how to […]
By Jenn on January 3, 2012
The B.C. government wants to hear your views about what needs to change in public schools to better prepare students for the 21st century. It has created a website at bcedplan.ca and has been posting questions. You can join the conversation here. A few days ago, the moderators posted a summary of what they had heard […]
By Jenn on December 22, 2011
2011EDUC0098-001601Dec. 9, 2011 VICTORIA – Overall school district operating grants and average per-pupil funding have increased again this year as B.C. continues to provide record funding levels for K-12 education. Operating Funding · Total operating funding to school districts in 2011-12 is $4.721 billion, a $58-million increase over 2010-11.· Average per-pupil funding as of the […]
By Jenn on December 19, 2011
At the end of October, flanked by a group of student high school representatives, Education Minister George Abbott announced the launch of B.C.’s Education Plan, a new blueprint to overhaul the province’s K-12 school system. The new plan, the minister said, will transform the education system to be more flexible, emphasize personalized learning and increase […]
By Jenn on December 15, 2011
For over a year the Ministry of Education has been hinting at a change in direction for the province’s education system. It all started in mid-2010 with murmurings about “21st Century” or “child-centred” education, with little to no explanation of what that meant, leaving educators, trustees, and parents to banter about ideas on blogs, listserves, […]