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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COVID In-School Counselling Preparation (Door Poster)
This is a Google Drive resource, available and editable in English, Français, y español. Contained are seven versions of two signs that can be used in your school counselling office. All are colourful, attractively laid out, and are suitable to print or put up a computer/TV monitor. The first series of signs reads: Before meeting with your counsellor...… please put on a FACE MASK before entering the office, covering your nose and mouth.… please use the HAND SANITIZER, before entering th
5th - 12th, Higher Education
Health, School Counseling
Counselling Poster: People Change When They Are Ready To
This is a poster about how people changing when they want to. It is fit for a counsellor's office, or to display on school monitors. I have found that it can be used as a fabulous discussion starter (in class or in counselling). I have created it in Google Sheets, provided over ten variations in style and design, and they are, of course, fully editable should you wish to make changes. The quotation on the poster is from Lori Deschene as seen below: No one changes unless they want to. Not if
4th - 12th
School Counseling, School Psychology
The Calm Equation: Helping Students Take Control of their Anger & Anxiety
This is something simple, but effective that I have used with high school students from Grades 8 through 12. A clear and easy way to keep calm in stressful situations, whether in anger or in fear. Talking about this three-step strategy and practicing it beforehand, gives students more power and agency over their emotions and responses in stressful situations. Contained herein are both wallet-sized, poster-sized, and an in-between sized (what I call office-sized [used when working with the stud
5th - 12th
For All Subjects, School Counseling, School Psychology
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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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