Month: January 2017

It was wonderful to see Burnaby’s  ELL and classroom teachers collaborate with Leyton Schnellert Friday morning.  We discussed ways to meet the needs of all learners in our classrooms.  Everyone left feeling inspired.

Thank you to Leyton Schnellert, Deborah Butler, and Miriam Miller for presenting to our SRL team Friday afternoon!  

Thank you also to to Joan and Carol, from Comox Valley, who have shared their list of picture books that reinforce the concepts of Creativity and Identity.

As promised, here’s the list! 

Click on the image to view the pdf.

Thank you to the amazing Sharon Jeroski, who brilliantly shared her wisdom and ideas around Communicating Student Learning to elementary teachers and principals this morning.  Teachers shared wonderful stories of ways children are learning and reflecting in classrooms all across Burnaby.

Personal and social competency is the set of abilities that relate to students’ identity in the world, both as individuals and as members of their community and society. Personal and social competency encompasses the abilities students need to thrive as individuals, to understand and care about themselves and others, and to find and achieve their purposes in the world.

View the short video from the students at Dormick Elementary School by clicking on the blue “Personal Awareness and Responsibility”.

Personal Awareness and Responsibility

The thinking competency encompasses the knowledge, skills and processes we associate with intellectual development. It is through their competency as thinkers that students take subject-specific concepts and content and transform them into a new understanding. Thinking competence includes specific thinking skills as well as habits of mind, and metacognitive awareness.

Click on the blue “Creative Thinking” and “Critical Thinking” to see students from Dormick Elementary School explain it.  Do you notice their “I statements”?

Critical Thinking

Creative Thinking

Communication competency encompasses the set of abilities that students use to impart and exchange information, experiences, and ideas, to explore the world around them, and to understand and effectively engage in the use of digital media.  Communication competency provides a bridge between students’ learning, their personal and social identity and relationships, and the world in which they interact.

Watch this short video, by clicking on “Communication Competency”, created by Dormick Park Elementary School.  The students explain in beautifully!

Communication Competency