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Peter Beens

PIPEDREAMS - Seeing with New Eyes - International Perspectives on Trust and Regulation ... - 16 views

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education inspiration @zbpipe Israel conference 201205 international trust regulation

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  • This year, I was asked to attend as a Canadian Teacher Representative, along with Ontario Ministry Officer, Colette Ruduck and our Ontario Deputy Minister of Education, George Zegarac.
  • the theme of “Trust and Regulation”
  • my Canadian values of equality, diversity, safety and choice
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  • high degree of trust for teachers, administrators and district decision makers
  • Our regulations are meant to encourage equality and diversity, choice, opportunity, innovation – fundamental values in our society.
  • In contrast to many of the other countries represented, our Canadian context was unique in that the regulations (organizations, federations, policies, curriculum) imposed actually tie in Trust and Relationship building and partnerships as key factors to increase capacity building with a wide range of stakeholders.
  • We need our profession to be respected, which includes paying us well, treating us fairly, supporting us with resources, nurturing our learning and leadership opportunities
  • systems of education can achieve and can be highly ranked without the use of formalized testing
  • We need to feel safe to make mistakes because we too are learners, especially in a profession that is changing so drastically in the 21st Century
  • We need to feel trusted and with that, we want our skills, our education, our talents and our passions to be respected so we -together – can become the creators of our own pedagogies
  • these passionate and experienced leaders agreed that such tests don’t work when used to rate, or punish teachers
  • can even sometimes do more harm then good
  • such tests are not always authentic
  • First and foremost, teacher voice needs to be heard and respected
  • As principals, we need to empower our teachers and community
  • the importance of the teacher/principal relationship came up over and over and over
  • Trust – allows me to teach in my style, developing my own curriculum
  • I wonder if there is a correlation between that supportive, trusting principal and the fact that we have incredibly dynamic teachers here, at Van Leer from all over the globe
  • We too need to think different because change can start with us
  • We need to make our voices heard by be socially active
  • By sharing and reflecting our learning openly and even by sometimes being vulnerable and asking for help and challenging the status quo
  • we need to recognize that our learning environments are changing and are very different from how we were once trained and educated
  • We need to remind our leaders that we are not just teachers of academics but we teach the whole person
  • Many of us struggle, without supports – to help impoverished families, students with mental health disabilities, learning disabilities, students that speak a different language, large class sizes, violence, inequalities
  • Peter Beens on 01 Jun 12
     
    The conference in Jerusalem, Israel that Van Leer hosts each year  is intended to encourage professional dialogue among educators, academics, representatives of the Third Sector, and policymakers from diverse areas and places in Israel and abroad.    This year, I was asked to attend as a Canadian Teacher Representative, along with Ontario Ministry Officer, Colette Ruduck and our Ontario Deputy Minister of Education, George Zegarac. With the theme of "Trust and Regulation" at the center of our discussions, it did not take long to realize that my context, as a Canadian Educator, a parent, and a student -  was one of privilege and opportunity.
Peter Beens

The Canadian Press: Canadian Centre for Child Protection launches site to teach teens s... - 14 views

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education social-networking text_messaging safety issues news

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  • Peter Beens on 21 Jan 10
     
    The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is launching a website targeting texting teens to teach safe use of the popular technology amid growing concerns about young people sending sexual messages and nude photos via text.
anna colozzo

graph water usage - 2 views

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graphs math water usage

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  • Graph of the day: Canadians pee between periods, by Chris Blattman: Edmonton’s water utility published this graph of water consumption during last Sunday’s gold medal Olympic hockey game. Roughly 80% of Canadians were watching. I believe the beer consumption picture looks exactly the same, but upside down. ...
  • anna colozzo on 17 Apr 13
     
    water consumption during olympic gold medal game
Michele Brown

Games and Facts from Galleries of Canadian Museum of Nature - 33 views

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science nature animals interactive

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  • Michele Brown on 09 Jul 15
     
    These interactives originate in the galleries of the Canadian Museum of Nature. Even if you can't make it to the museum, you can enjoy a virtual experience!
Derrick Grose

Net Filtering in Canadian Libraries - 8 views

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net filtering Internet censorship

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  • Derrick Grose on 04 Mar 10
     
    Richard Beaudry reviews the issue of net filtering in Canadian libraries.
Derrick Grose

Resources for Remembrance from Veterans Affairs Canada - 0 views

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Remembrance Day Canadian History On-line Resources School Libraries

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  • Derrick Grose on 28 Oct 11
     
    Alan Banman describes on-line resources for teaching about Remembrance Day from Veterans Affairs Canada--also valuable for teaching Canadian History
dmassicg

How Canadians Are Integrating Technology Into The Classroom - Edudemic - 1 views

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technology infographic Canada

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  • Ever wonder how a particular country uses technology in the classroom? There’s a new infographic that spells out exactly what classrooms in Canada are up to.
Cara Whitehead

Educational Standards Correlations - 46 views

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common core spelling vocabulary standards

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  • Cara Whitehead on 02 Jun 13
     
    VocabularySpellingCity provides the following sets of correlations to standards: U.S. Standards by State Common Core Standards for each States' Implementation Australian Standards by State Canadian Standards by Province English National Curriculum Standards
Trevor Cunningham

A moving film about the life of a school - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 10 views

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  • Trevor Cunningham on 29 Apr 12
     
    "Too many films about school insist on showing the teaching and learning enterprise at its worst. Students are portrayed as at best troubled and often just rotten, teachers are stupid or mean; parents are arrogant or absent. "Monsieur Lazhar" doesn't, and that is only part of what distinguishes this moving, intelligent Canadian film, which opens in the Washington D.C. region on Friday."
Tara Mitchell

The Education Reporter - 19 views

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education reporter blog

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  • Tara Mitchell on 20 Nov 11
     
    Great blog about Canadian Education
Tara Mitchell

mathFROG - Fun Resources & Online Games - 5 views

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math mathfrog

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  • Tara Mitchell on 10 Dec 11
     
    Online math games for a variety of math strands. Includes followup activities. Canadian Content.
Peter Beens

Part 3: Are we medicating a disorder or treating boyhood as a disease? - The Globe and ... - 18 views

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education medication issues ADHD Ritalin

shared by Peter Beens on 25 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Last year, more than two million prescriptions for Ritalin and other ADHD drugs were written specifically for children under 17, and at least 75 per cent of them were for young males. Part 3 of a 6-part series.
  • taking a drug for attention deficit disorder each morning has become as commonplace as downing a vitamin.
  • prescriptions for Ritalin and other amphetamine-like drugs for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder shot up to 2.9 million in 2009, a jump of more than 55 per cent in four years.
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  • 75 per cent of them were for young males
  • “It certainly suggests the drugs are being abused,” says Gordon Floyd, president and CEO of Children's Mental Health Ontario. “There's a desire for the quick fix … the idea that – ‘oh, we'll fix this with a pill' – rather than spend a few months in counselling, is pretty appealing.”
  • ADHD is one of the most commonly diagnosed disorders of childhood, with core features that include an inability to focus, and hyper and impulsive behaviour. Increasingly, it's seen as a chronic condition that 60 per cent of kids never outgrow and one that experts estimate affects five per cent of children worldwide.
  • Boys are four times more likely to develop autism, three times more likely to suffer dyslexia, and two to three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD.
  • IMS figures show ADHD prescriptions for males have increased 50 per cent since 2005.
  • Peter Beens on 25 Oct 10
     
    Last year, more than two million prescriptions for Ritalin and other ADHD drugs were written specifically for children under 17, and at least 75 per cent of them were for young males (Canadian data). Part 3 of a 6-part series.
Jac Londe

Canada: Facebook's 4 Big Privacy Fixes PC World - 0 views

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fb facebook

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  • Jac Londe on 28 Aug 09
     
    Canadian courts are pushing Facebook to clarify and enforce privacy issues that we should've demanded earlier -- but we still have a wish list.
Derrick Grose

SLIC - Vampires in Canada? - 0 views

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critical literacy web literacy vampires

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  • Derrick Grose on 08 Sep 09
     
    After the bibliography on Canadian vampire fiction there is an activity sheet to help students develop a critical perspective on what they read on the Web (and elsewhere) and to provide them with a model of questions to ask when reading information texts.
Peter Beens

Dusty World: The Mediocrity Virus - 22 views

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education canada USA initiatives

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  • Peter Beens on 02 Sep 11
     
    ...The coach in me suggests that if your team is performing well, you keep doing what you're doing.  Certainly you tweak it here or there, but when you turn in a world class performance, you don't bring in a coach from a team that didn't even make the show to give suggestions, but we did, because we're Canadian, and the one thing we have even more than an awesome education system is a giant inferiority complex with our big cousins to the south.
H DeWaard

Teaching is a 'Way of Being' - Part 1 | Canadian Education Association (CEA) - 23 views

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teaching way being canadian education association expert

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  • H DeWaard on 17 Mar 15
     
    Excellent teaching requires that teachers possess a particular way of being-not merely own a repertoire of recipes and protocols like the three-part lesson or inquiry lesson plans!
Martin Burrett

Research: Teens who were severely bullied as children at higher risk of suicidal though... - 3 views

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bullying health mental health

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  • Martin Burrett on 15 Jan 18
     
    "Teens who were severely bullied as children by peers are at higher risk of mental health issues, including suicidal thoughts and behaviours, according to new research in CMAJ(Canadian Medical Association Journal). "Our findings showed a general tendency, in about 15% of the children, of being exposed to the most severe levels of victimization from the beginning of their education until the transition to high school," writes Dr. Marie-Claude Geoffroy, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, with coauthors. "Those children were at greater risk of debilitating depressive/dysthymic symptoms or anxiety and of suicidality in adolescence than less severely victimised children, even after we accounted for a plethora of confounders assessed throughout childhood.""
Derrick Grose

There's a map for that - 41 views

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maps geography history active learning

shared by Derrick Grose on 14 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Derrick Grose on 14 Jun 13
     
    The Royal Canadian Geographical Society reports on how students can explore the history and geography of Canada using maps that weigh 45 kilograms and cover half of a school gym!
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