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As a community building educator, I specialize in creating meaningful, supportive, and fun STEAM learning environments
As a community building educator, I specialize in creating meaningful, supportive, and fun STEAM learning environments
I am working to enrich these learning environments with food education, intergenerational learning, Repair Cafe (complementary to Makerspace), and social ventures. While education alone would not solve complex issues like global poverty, it can open a world of possibilities and enable participation for more people.
The learning environments are built on four foundations: Relevant STEAM, Guidance and Support, WE Thrive?, and Students' Spacetime
What do they look like, sound like, and feel like?
What do they look like, sound like, and feel like?
Like a Repair Cafe :D
Like a Repair Cafe :D
Imagine students are the fixers and organizers who bring together students, staffs, the communities
Video: The Spirit of Repair
Relevant STEAM
Relevant STEAM
Teach students to think critically and use engineering or technology in imaginative designs or creative approaches to real-world problems while building on students' mathematics and science base
Professional Learning Plan
STEAM of daily life: meals, health, electronics, buildings ...
My life with trees, Uncle Tungsten, Machine Learning
Guidance and Support
Guidance and Support
Grow and incorporate my knowledge of Pathways, Alternatives, Transitions, Spec Ed, Community Resources to better support and empower students' success
Professional Learning Plan
Twice a week volunteering with Guidance/Student Success/ Spec Ed
De-escalate Training, Guidance and Career Education AQ
WE Thrive?
WE Thrive?
Together, build communities to nurture students' growth within the class, the school, the neighborhood as well as more complex "We Thrive?" spaces such as Indigenous Canada and UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through:
Cooperative Learning (e.g pair coding, greeting twice in circle, music, dance, tricksters, make and repair space...)
Global citizenship (e.g students generate questions, start close, exploring by the seat, citizen science projects...)
Students' Spacetime
Students' Spacetime
Value and actively create the space and time for students to develop independently and at their own paces
“Allow space for for students to come up with their own questions, then guide them to the process of figuring out the answer”
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first female Fields Medal winner considered dropping math until a teacher explained that she didn’t need to be fast to be good
Portfolio
Portfolio
Only part of the work is shown below. The full comic is on "Supporting Learning Skills" page.
Only part of the work (created by Troy Abrams and I) is shown below. The full comic is on "Mental Health and Open Mind"
Watching
Watching
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