An Edmonton teacher feels so strongly about the importance of giving zeroes to students who don’t complete work, that he is putting his job on the line. The “Hero of Zero” is 35 year veteran physics teacher, Lynden Dorval. [Read more] The public is behind him. The CTV news poll on the webpage carrying the […]
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When I went to school, students would turn in their major papers by the due date, or lose 10% per day for 5 days and then they’d get a zero. When the papers were returned 2 or 3 weeks later, we’d ignore the underlined spelling mistakes, the little circles where the commas should have been, […]
In British Columbia there is an exam in English 12. It’s on the way out, and it will be replaced with a Literacy Assessment. Both of these assessments have a major essay where students are expected to synthesize the contents of two or more pieces of writing while responding to a specific prompt. Here are […]
Last week my school received a visit from the Honourable Judith Guichon, the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. The lieutenant governor the representative of Queen Elizabeth II in BC. The visit followed the expected protocols–teachers dressed formally; Her Honour was accompanied by an Aide-de-Camp in full RCMP dress uniform; she entered the assembly in a processional and various other formalities were […]
So I was thinking of a routine I might turn into a ritual, as per my last post. A school routine . . . Attendance! In every class, I take attendance. This routine is so routine, there’s probably no one who doesn’t know how this works. The teacher goes down the alphabetical list, calling […]
My principal told me of a conversation that he had with a Christian minister who was strongly against Christian Education. I asked him if he could send me a list of his objections. [click_to_tweet tweet=”Here are 7 Objections to Christian Schools and a brief response to each. #ChristianEducation #ChristianSchools #ChristianorPublicSchool” quote=”Here are 7 Objections to […]