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Professional Development Plan 2018-2023
At present, I am an excluded manager with the BC government. I lead a team of dedicated, hard-working employees in an atmosphere of...
Team Teaching - Collaboration can benefit teachers and students
Chapter Eight of Brookfield’s book, The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust and Responsiveness in the Classroom, is about team...
Are you getting the message across?
An important component of reflective practice is determining if your students have learned what you wanted them to learn. You may think...
Lecturing Creatively
Chapter Six in Brookfield’s The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust and Responsiveness in the Classroom, the author first dispels the...
Trinity Western University law school accreditation debate
In July of 2012, Trinity Western University (TWU), located in the lower mainland of BC, submitted a proposal to the BC Ministry of...
McGill University Medical School Accreditation Probation 2015-2017
McGill University’s medical program is the oldest in Canada, founded in 1829, and was the school’s first faculty. In the fall of 2014,...
Two types of Reflection
Reflection-in-Action is thinking on your feet. Experience and a history of critical reflection and feedback aid our ability to act in...
Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET)
Just for laughs :)
Resistance to Learning: The Learning Trough
Dr. James Atherton created the Learning Trough Model of student resistance. The essence of his theory is that students experience a...
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