I'm an elementary school teacher with 16 years of experience in the classroom. I have taught a variety of grades in a variety of combinations, including split level and multi-age groupings. I am a mother of two: one girl, one boy. I recently decided to begin blogging because our family made a big move across the country from Manitoba to British Columbia, and in updating my resume, I discovered that so little of my personality was apparent in this tiny 2-page document about the past 16 years of my life. I am sort of starting from scratch in a district where no one knows me yet and so, I decided to build a blog so that other educators could get to know me. Here goes...
It has literally been so long since I wrote a blog post that I forgot how to log in here! Oops. I apologize to my 5 readers. The wheels have been spinning, but I have been very busy and very tired. For a while now I have been mulling the idea for this entry: I am currently experiencing a career in reverse. As you know, if you have read my other posts, I left my permanent contract of 16-plus years in Manitoba and moved across the country to British Columbia. As a brand new grad in Winnipeg, I did very little substitute teaching. I was very fortunate to be in the right place at the right time six months after I graduated, when a lady at the school where I student-taught had a baby and went on maternity leave. Her leave was for one year, beginning on the last day of school before the winter break. I was hired to teach from December to December. It was a Grade 6 class, and the first six months was something of a trial-by-fire. My university courses had not at all prepared me for th
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