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Tia Henriksen
It's All About Learning
Learner ~ Leader ~ Educator ~ Mother
Passionate about learning and sparking the learning in others. I believe in modelling my own learning. I feel strongly about developing relationships with students, parents, teachers, and my colleagues (near and far). It is through developing these relationships that the most profound learning can occur.
It’s All About Learning
Monthly Archives: February 2012
It’s Not About Power and Control
Whether you are a mother, father, sister, brother, teacher, administrator, or anyone in management, it is important to understand that trying to exert power and control is usually not very effective. Too often I see and hear about people trying … Continue reading
Posted in Connections / Relationships, Reflection
Tagged children, control, family, influence, personal, positive, power, professional, relationships, students
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Positively Positive – Attitude IS Everything!
Attitude is everything. Everywhere. In every situation. A person’s attitude not only contributes to one’s own feelings, but also the feelings of others. A person’s attitude is contagious. If you have a positive, optimistic, attitude, that is what you will … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Collaboration, Connections / Relationships, Personalized Learning, Photography, Reflection
Tagged attitude, education, educators, green card, positive, reward
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Self-Assessment – Oh the Horror!
Self-Assessment … it’s a (long) process. We all know the importance of Assessment AS learning …. This is when students (and adults, for that matter) reflect, and self-assess their learning that real long-term learning and growth can occur. When the … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Personalized Learning, Reflection, Reporting
Tagged Assessment, assessment as learning, grades, grading, reflection, student, students
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App-Learning Curve
Having iPads at my school and having to manage them and their apps has proven to be an interesting task. If you know me at all, you would know that when I am involved in a project I usually jump … Continue reading
Posted in Leading the Learning, Lessons Learned, Management, Reflection, Technology
Tagged app, apps, create, creation, criteria, curve, learning, process, tech, technology
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Letter Grades and Learning
My students started their self-assessment for Term 2 today (in the 2 French classes I teach). I also managed to start the individual conferences with my students. During these conferences, we discussed the Prescribed Learning Outcomes (PLOs) for the term … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Connections / Relationships, Curriculum, Reporting
Tagged alfie kohn, degrading, engagement, grading, learning, letter grades, motivation, reporting
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Attendance and Engagement
Engagement is what makes the difference for kids! I am the vice principal of an inner-city school. It has been determined that our school is in the top ten percent of schools in our district of 124 schools with the … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Connections / Relationships, Personalized Learning, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged assist, at-risk, attendance, ego, engagement, fu, help, robotics, students
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David Warlick – Part 2 – Checklist for Teachers
There were many wonderful ideas and thoughts presented to us by David Warlick (@dwarlick) at the Focus Day this past Friday. Instead of trying to share all that I learned in one VERY long blog post, I have decided to … Continue reading
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Focus Day with David Warlick – Part 1
David Warlick presented at our District Focus Day today. What a great 5 hours this was! Yes, 5 hours with David Warlick. To say that many of us, okay, probably just me, were overwhelmed at the end of David’s presentation … Continue reading
David Warlick Preview
David Warlick (@dwarlick), author of blog 2 Cents Worth, is visiting our district tomorrow for the second time this year. In October, he talked to us during one of our Engaging the Digital Learner evening sessions. His session was entitled, … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Professional Development, Reflection, Technology
Tagged 21st century, blog, david warlick, digital learner, engaging, leaders, leading, learners, learning, scratch, tips, Warlick
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