Good morning, I’ve just completed 7 days of school prep at my school and school opened last Wednesday. There was a mix of PD workshops and classroom prep time. We had an interesting session on Behaviour for Learning and it struck a note with me and I wanted to share some thoughts.. Here are a …
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Learning is messy. Feedback shouldn’t be!
This is a biggy, I know.. how do you draw the line between waiting too long and waiting long enough? These children come to us and we jump into learning in all its wonderful, crazy glory and you want to ensure everyone is with you and stays there. I know Val, my parallel teacher, and …
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Connecting with Students..
Gearing up for BTS action.. sharing these thoughts with my Curriculum team at school. Sharing with you too. 😉🤗🥰 Making connections is very important. Connections bring trust and having our students trust that we have their best interests at heart makes the parents trust us in turn. Once trust is broken with a parent or …
Some thoughts on PLAY-ing
I’m thinking about a quote from Jean Piaget- one of the theorists still studied today across many specialties… “Play is the work of childhood”. What does this mean to me?… Everything! This is central to what I do and how I ensure we operate in our preschool setting. Let me backtrack a bit. My mom …
Primary School – Here we come!
I might have mentioned this before and many of you know anyway: This is a partnership! We can’t do this without you. School does not start and end at whichever Pre or Primary School you go to. You will always have your part to play. Here are some more tips to help with your prep …
Some thoughts on communicating with our young ones.
I have some thoughts to share and I hope you are open to them. If you’d like me to explore a specific topic or concern, feel free to let me know. This blogging journey is as much for me as it is for anyone else but I’ve got things in mind to explore and I’d …
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Get to Know Me
My name is Tonya and I’m a 35 year old wife and educator from Trinidad and Tobago. I’ve recently found myself saying I’m a wife first, then an educator, which has been an interesting thing for me to note. Priorities shift, we grow, things change I guess. My husband and my future family are the …
My First Post!
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog, stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates. While the blog is officially about education, it’s about so much more. As the name suggests in my thoughts about being a …
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