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TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More!

dfanderson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:46:05 +0000

Our school motto at Grosse Ile School, TEAM, says a lot and I think we can certainly use it to illustrate what we hope for through our CEFRIO-LEARN project. As I looked around the room and listened to many things at our meeting this week, it was clear what a great team we are making together in all the collaborating we are doing. I say to everyone keep up the great work and lets keep on collaborating – we make a great team! I’m already looking forward to the next meeting day!

Donna Anderson

Welcome back and welcome to our new teachers

learnconnect — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:37:48 +0000

September is such a hectic time in schools and we so appreciate your taking time to come to a workshop. This project is about connections and collaboration. We each come with different experience both in and out of the classroom, with much to share and to learn from each other. I encourage you to make connections both for yourself and your students. Those who were here before know that I have my online network. They are a source of information and questions which lead me to learn and understand in new ways. I also have met two people through my online community with whom I do a monthly webcast. These online relationships have greatly enriched my learning.

Both Christiane and I are hoping you will experience the richness of opening your class up to the world, to give your students opportunities for communicating in purposeful ways with a broader audience and to collaborate with students on projects. We hope, too, that you will share and learn from your fellow teachers, both in your school and in this community. Some of our returning teachers have discovered online communities and are now participating in communicating on a more global scale.

We hope you will share your reflections so that we all can learn from the experiences of others. We would be glad to open up this space to other writers. You can already contribute by adding a comment.

A comment can be a reflection on what you have read here, a question about how to proceed, a request for more information, a question for us all to ponder….. Let’s make this space a learning space for us all.

Susan

2MMClub: Tools for Teaching and Learning

learnconnect — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:02:34 +0000

As a first step, I would like to point you to some resources that you can use in your class to implement the Two-Minute Mystery writing project.

To access all these resources, you need to log into the teachers area with your user name and password.
http://www.qesnrecit.qc.ca/ccdb/2mmclub/teachers.php

In the left menu, click on “Project Resources” and go into Materials and Ideas. There are tools for your students and stuff for you.

For your students:

The ingredients of a mystery story
While reading mystery stories, questions to ask to uncover the specific ingredients that make a mystery
Writing Planner
Graphic organisers for planning

There are also some writing resources your students can access themselves in the student public area. So please, do give them the URL of the site so they can use it on their own.

For you

Teaching and Planning Mystery Writing
Mini lessons to help students discover the genre
Writing Mysteries across the curriculum
Ideas for writing mysteries to work in curriculum areas other than language arts.

Question:
What are the tools and strategies you use with your students to help them uncover the genre. Click on the “Comments” link to reply to this question and share with your colleagues. If you have a document you’d like to share, just send it to me by regular email.

Christiane Dufour