Hello everyone! And welcome to my first-ever official blog!
To quickly introduce myself- I am a Brock University, Consecutive Education Jr/I teacher candidate with Dramatic Arts as my teachable.
I graduated from York University's Faculty of Fine Arts in 2011 with a BFA Honours degree in Theatrical Design/Production, and spent those years as an active crew member working on the Theatre@York mainstage productions. I have a background in both theatre and film/video production, as well as interests in cooking, baking, reading, scrapbooking, travel and (of course) working with children. I've been fortunate to have had some incredible experiences working with children; both within and outside of a classroom setting... and I'll discuss some of those learning opportunities in further detail in posts to come!
I am really excited about the process of maintaining and updating this blog. It is my goal that it will serve to highlight the learning and discovering I intend to carry on with for the rest of my life, as I work towards becoming the best educator I can be!
I graduated from York University's Faculty of Fine Arts in 2011 with a BFA Honours degree in Theatrical Design/Production, and spent those years as an active crew member working on the Theatre@York mainstage productions. I have a background in both theatre and film/video production, as well as interests in cooking, baking, reading, scrapbooking, travel and (of course) working with children. I've been fortunate to have had some incredible experiences working with children; both within and outside of a classroom setting... and I'll discuss some of those learning opportunities in further detail in posts to come!
I am really excited about the process of maintaining and updating this blog. It is my goal that it will serve to highlight the learning and discovering I intend to carry on with for the rest of my life, as I work towards becoming the best educator I can be!
I also intend on keeping this blog as a potential resource for other educators/teacher candidates/ folks just plain interested in thinking, learning and teaching creatively, and are interested in making daily discoveries alongside me ... Hopefully you find something that "works" for you here, or else something to inspire and encourage you on your journey. And that you feel compelled to pass this kind of dynamic thinking along to other educators! :)
Over the course of this blog I'll be posting a variety of the following (and surely I'll think up a few more over time!):
- Reflections on my own personal experiences/learning
- Sources for possible consideration in creating fun and dynamic lesson plans
- Cool things happening in the world of 'creative teaching'
- My experiences playing around with various classroom technologies, as part of my 'Educational Technology' Cohort
- Ideas for how to integrate "the arts", or creative thinking and planning into your lessons
I'm looking forward to the challenges (to both my writing and my reflecting) that this blog will present, and hope you'll bare with me as I navigate this new environment and try to 'find' my online voice.
Yours in blogging,
Yours in blogging,
-"Miss Pollard"
Note: I will try to employ the term 'educators' in place of 'teachers' here on this blog, in order to address the fact that there are so many different ways in which we can find ourselves in a position of educating, and this blog is really intended to provide opportunities to explore creative/arts education in any of those ways... so educators we all shall be!
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