Courtney Langton
Courtney is an aspiring high school teacher.
Her teachables are History and English, but she's happy to teach anything that doesn't involve numbers or formulas.
Her particular interest is in promoting gender equity and anti-oppression both in and outside the classroom.
She writes a detailed To-Do list every morning, and enjoys nothing more than a good book and a plate of bacon on a rainy Saturday.
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Jonathan Wong
Jonathan's primary interest is moral education. His teachable subjects are English and Music.
He encourages critical thinking and hopes to teach his students to recognize, and strive for, what is truly important to them
without forgetting to be compassionate, tolerant, and open-minded along the way.
He likes making analogies and his favourite is one that compares life to jumping on a trampoline.
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Why we keep this blog going, despite all the chaos of school
Monday, January 18, 2010
Finally, young teachers need to be in serious conversation with other smart talented teachers. Most schools leave almost no time for open ended discussion about education, and most teachers have no precedent for initiating such conversations. A new teacher who makes conversation about learning and teaching a priority will be much better prepared than the one who knows four different ways to organize a lesson plan book. But this is a complex habit, and one that takes deliberate effort to acquire, and should be actively cultivated during training.
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