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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Student Self-Assessment of Work Habits (Strengths & Weaknesses) for Report Cards
Studies show that when students pause and evaluate themselves, their evaluation is more meaningful than those evaluations performed by teachers. Students take ownership over their own progress. Moreover, people are more likely to achieve their goals when they write them down. THREE-PAGE FULLY EDITABLE WORD DOCUMENT:Two-page self-evaluation tool (which can additionally be used for [student-]parent-teacher conferences).One-page self-evaluation tool (which can be used well for students to send ho
5th - 12th, Adult Education
English Language Arts, For All Subjects
Start of Year: Fun Memory Mnemonics Name Game: Learn Students' Names in One Day
This is an EASY, ENGAGING, and downright FUN activity for students and teachers alike. This activity can be used in the first week of class to quickly and easily learn students’ names, while you also learn a little about the students, too. In turn, students learn a bit about their teacher. It takes, at the very minimum, one full-class, but I always return to it for a day or two afterwards, to reinforce the learning of the study technique of "memory by association" and show students that practic
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
For All Subjects
Cue Card Creative Writing Activity
This year-long writing activity starts by having students review the parts of speech (namely nous, adjectives, and verbs). Afterwards, the cue cards are wonderful sentence generators that can be used in numerous creative writing activities. From daily ten-minute timed free-writes, to coming up with the first line of a poem, or having students develop their own individual character and then pair off to put those two characters together in a short story. The options are truly endless. Year af
4th - 12th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing
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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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