PME 810

Journal of Connections to My Professional Community I have no idea how to maintain image quality on Blogspot... my (readable) screenshots from my PLC can be found on this Google Doc ! Journal #1 November 17 th , 2020 I spent some time further examining my chosen PLC platform, and actually noticed that a lot of the discussion boards and groups that I had looked at were fairly inactive! There tended to be contributions every 2-3 weeks, rather than daily posts and comments. I realized that the regular levels of engagements in the groups that I had looked at would not really work for this module task, which is a bit more time sensitive. Unfortunately, all of my requests to join some of the private discussions (which had a few more members than most groups) have not been approved, so I decided to be a bit more ambitious and create my own group in hopes of facilitating some engagement that is directly related to curricular design. I decided to make the guiding questions related to the pandem...

Foundations and Principles in My Context of Practice    Journal Entry #1 November 10 th , 2020   When I first started looking for a professional learning community, I wanted to look for PLCs related to teaching Visual Arts, which relates directly to my current teaching context – teaching AVI 2O1 virtually. I did a brief search online and found one promising organization – the Ontario Art Education Association (OAEA) ( https://ontarioarteducationassociation.org/distance-learning/ ). This organization seems to be the leading PLC for Visual Arts teachers in Ontario, and looked intriguing. It was also highly regarded by my department head, as the annual conference is upcoming. However, I was dissuaded by the membership fee. My department head also sent an email out later today, stating that she would like to form a PLC for Virtual Visual Arts Teachers in our school. Given this, I think that I will wait to gain more insight into our school’s PLC, as it will be directly related...

Hello all,     In order for our viewers to distinguish work completed in Module 2 from new concepts implemented in Module 3, we highlighted titles in our slides and flowchart in  orange .     May and I wanted to continue our visual representation to showcase the relationships of different philosophical foundations, curriculum conceptions, curricular designs and align them the newly acquired concepts in Module 3 including planning, instruction, and assessment.  As educators, we often use a variety of assessment practices; hence, we also delineated information on assessment purposes, measurements, interpretations, and uses for the various curricular designs. Furthermore, we implemented examples of videos on curricular designs to showcase our understanding of the variations of teaching models of instruction. Viewers can discern which model they align closely with!     Here is a list of changes for Module 3:   1. Guiding Questions (slide 2) ...