My Digital Classroom

As an Associate/Deputy Principal, I led staff workshops in a variety of areas. I have included a selection here:

Beginning our journey of inquiry teaching and learning at Sir Douglas Bader Intermediate School:

As the year progresses, we go back to what we have learned about inquiry to recap our integration of Reading, Writing and Maths within our explorations:

Writing Active Reflections

Management Systems

Quality Assurance

Global and Local Participation

Challenge and Empowerment - developing acts of service within our community

In September 2011, I led professional development for all staff to conduct an effective scientific investigation for the (then) upcoming Science, Maths and Technology Fair. The following presentation was supported by a number of planning documents:

This is a recent professional development unit I led on developing effective classroom environments:

This video demonstrates one way in which I use the inking function on my tablet. This particular video relates to Writers Workshop and teacher editing:

This next video highlights two uses of the OnLine classroom (Blackboard). One is for distributing homework electronically and timing the appearance of assigned work. Secondly, the OnLine classroom can be used to meet different learning needs when using the online testing function:

One of my student talks about how he uses the OnLine Classroom:

Another student talks about the advantages of the OnLine classroom:

I created the following slideshow to enhance my presentation to faculty about uses of the OnLine Classroom (Blackboard) in a 1:1 classroom:

The next presentation was something I created to help other Grade Level faculty in my current school. Fortunately, those of us in Grade Six had already been 1:1 for a full academic year. Other faculty were feeling somewhat apprehensive about their upcoming first year as 1:1 teachers. I presented this in the hope that they might feel less apprehensive and just enjoy the ride!