Mia's Tech Blog!

                       For this week's blog, I have created a digital story about the Tsuu T'ina Nation, Tsuu T'ina Middle School, and the lessons I have learned for my future teaching practice. Click here to watch my digital story!

A major part of teaching is connecting and engaging with the education community (which is also a learning outcome for third year Education students!). As a teacher candidate, I've learned that the "Twitter" app is a great way to begin doing that! Twitter is a great platform that I use to: connect with education experts, mentors, and peers. share and gain experiences, knowledge, resources, and tips for creating lessons and managing the classroom environment keep up to date with current news on what's happening globally, and within the education realm. I look forward to using Twitter as part of my teaching practice to help me communicate the "happenings" within my classroom with both the school community and parents/students.  My hope would be to use twitter posts as a quick way to: update parents on things such as field trips and school events, provide summaries of what students have learned during the week, and use it as a way to exhibit student work.  Twit...

 My specific goals for each of the 5 competencies:  Planning for Learning: P6 - Develops varied activities and assignments that are relevant, clearly aligned with learning goals, require deep thinking and support student engagement, collaboration, and choice (TQS 3a)   Facilitating Learning:  F7 - Engages in discussions and inquiry that invite high level thinking and engagement of all students (TQS 3b) Assessment: A3 - Develops learner understanding of learning goals and achievement expectations to promote self-monitoring Inclusive Environment: IE4 -  Creates a respectful and ethical learning community that encourages learners to take risks, build trust, embrace diversity, increase self-confidence, and show leadership Professional Responsibilities:  PR5 - Establishes professional and ethical relationships (TQS 1a, 1b) As of currently, I do not have much experience in educational technology. In previous field placement, I would struggle at times w...