drvan
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Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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I have over 20 years teaching experience in high schools, adult ed, university and private tutoring. I have also taught at learning centres for middle school and high school-aged students.
My background is in English Language Arts and Art History, incorporating cultural studies and literary theory. Like many English teachers, I teach short stories, novels, Shakespeare, poetry, grammar, essay writing, media studies, and career preparation and planning.
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Easy Introduction to Improv, Drama, & Drama Games - Substitute Friendly
Fun Start of Year Activities (Classroom & Relationship Building) and/or End of Year Fun! Substitute Friendly! This six-page pdf packet contains several activities you can use in your class to introduce drama to younger students, serve as an introduction to Improv (dramatic improvisation) to high school students, or keep in your substitute folder for when you arrive in a class with no lesson plans. Students of all ages will find these drama activities fun and engaging. Contained within are as f
6th - 12th
Art, Drama, English Language Arts
Food Quiz —27 Questions (Food, Drink & Food Companies Logos) w/ Extension Assign
This is a no-stakes fun quiz/activity about general knowledge about food, drink, and food companies. The resource can be (and has been) used for any Foods, or Psychology, or even a Visual Arts class. I actually developed it first when I taught Psychology and we were looking at the power of corporate logos and branding. I ended up giving it to my Foods teacher-colleague, bolstering it by adding nine food-related questions. A few years later I taught an Art class and we did an Andy Warhol C
8th - 12th
Psychology, Visual Arts
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Experience
I have over 20 years teaching experience in high schools, adult ed, university and private tutoring. I have also taught at learning centres for middle school and high school-aged students.
My background is in English Language Arts and Art History, incorporating cultural studies and literary theory. Like many English teachers, I teach short stories, novels, Shakespeare, poetry, grammar, essay writing, media studies, and career preparation and planning.
Teaching style
My philosophy of education centres on interdisciplinary studies and the development of critical reasoning skills. I believe that as modern life becomes increasingly complex and interconnected the need to teach how all subject areas interact is ever more important. As such, I habitually infuse my lessons with visual and popular culture, demonstrating how the material is relevant to students’ lives and thereby making it more accessible. Similarly, I contextualize the source material to its socio-political milieu to facilitate learning while students uncover how a text’s meaning changes over time.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Outstanding Teaching Practicum Award
My own education history
B.Ed., B.A., and M.Ed in School Counselling.
Additional biographical information
I'm a nineteenth-century boy, stuck in a twenty-first-century body.
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