Good Morning Sunshine!
I am up early taking advantage of the wonderful snow day and working on my major curriculum inquiry project for my face-to-face course. I really feel like someone was watching down on me today and gave me this blessing. For all of my fellow teachers I know they will use this surprise to work on report cards which are just around the corner. It seems in the educational world there never really is slowing down time!
I just wanted to let you know I did my observation yesterday for this week. I took advantage of a lunch time club at one of my schools called Lunch Bunch. The club was designed with the idea of providing an alternate play space for students struggling to make relationships on the playground. It is wildly popular right now with close to 30 students participating 3 days a week. While our Guidance Councillor is busy supervising - it has made the incidents in PLEP almost disappear and the outdoor duty teacher's job just a little bit easier. I really liked the idea of being "the fly on the wall" watching and listening to the interactions taking place in the brief time allotted. It would be interesting to monitor the interactions on a more regular basis. I passed along my observations to the Guidance teacher and she was amazed at what I was able to capture. I think this has to do in large part to my somewhat "nosey" nature. I love to people watch and often chose to sit back and observe people rather than jump right into the middle.
I have drafted a survey/questionnaire to administer to the group so I will share my results early next week after I collect my data. I know the Student Services team will be interested in knowing the results and will use this for planning purposes. I find it so interesting that I am able to use the research skills we are learning about a little more readily now and I understand the point behind what I am doing.
On a personal note, last night I received a phone call at 9:00 pm from Stats Canada. They were conducting an Aboriginal Canadian survey and asked me MANY questions about Christopher my 6 year old. There were questions like: what type of housing did we live in, how many rooms were in our home, did Christopher have Autism, ADHD, did we ever have a time where we did not have enough money to buy groceries, do we expose him to the Mi'kmag language, did any relatives ever attend a Residential school. The list of questions was exhaustive. Apparently they are releasing the results in 2013 so it will be fascinating to read the results. I know they chose Christopher because he is the Native blood line carrier in our family. As I was answering the questions I kept thinking about our course!
I hope you had the most wonderful holiday. While I did not travel far, I enjoyed the company of my mom and children, Sasha returned home and we bought a new Guinea pig named Patches! Life is very good!
Hope to hear from you soon and let me know about your travels,
Sheila
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