Systemic flexibility and freedom in Adult Education come at a cost: Extended operating hours mean that teachers work asynchronously, multiple intakes create an inconsistent student body, adapted instruction impedes accountability, lack of support for professional development and working spaces denies planned efforts for school improvement, and balanced communication is a constant concern. Continue reading
Toward Building Supervisory Practices in Adult Education
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These changes to teaching AE are significant for teachers in the classroom, but the most significant change factor for VSB adult education is the operational reorganization that has resulted from the Comptroller General’s 2010 Review of the Vancouver School Board. Continue reading
Improved Supervision Through Coaching
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The best way for teachers to increase student enrolment and retention is to not to offer a product better but to offer a better product. A program of teacher supervision and evaluation could achieve this goal while respecting the fiscal limitations of AE. Continue reading
A Consideration of the Relationship between Community and Schools
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Although I would like to think that this is a result of wise school leadership, I am just as inclined to see this change as led by communities which have little choice other than to respond to the basic need of gainful employment. Continue reading
Fortuna’s Pull
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My time since September has been intense. I work, study, and parent from the moment I finish my morning cup of coffee to an hour before bed. This goes on seven days a week and I’ve made many embarrassing mistakes because of my greatly overscheduled life.Continue reading
Partnerships and Change
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In a school, there are many kinds of communities to consider. On a basic level, there is the classroom community, the school community, the teacher community, and the student community. But these communities have almost endless permutations. Continue reading
Taking Stock of Community Resources
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Did I miss any? Here is an inventory of Hasting Education Centre’s community resources, an overall evaluation of their strengths and shortcomings, and a discussion about student connection to school and community development. Continue reading
Building Relevant Partnerships
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Plans are how ideas and other good intentions come to fruition. The challenge is making the plan happen in the first place. To accomplish this move from inspiration to actuation, focused participation is required. In short, a plan must have a goal. Continue reading
The Common Sense of Common Ground
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It is the failure to recognize the foundation of a successful relationship that causes communities to feel exclusive and subsequently pathologize one another. Continue reading
ATP?
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It is a given that the teachers will make every attempt to connect with students, but students are not always inclined to bond with one another. Continue reading