{"id":2345,"date":"2016-02-16T06:17:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T06:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2016-02-16T06:17:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T06:17:48","slug":"instructional-skills-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"Instructional Skills Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week was reading week – you already know that I went to visit Kerstin & John and my nephews for the long weekend. Once I returned to Vancouver I attended\u00a0<\/del> participated in an<\/del>\u00a0<\/del>THE\u00a0Instructional Skills Workshop. Every day we\u00a0presented\u00a0mini lessons to the group and then gave each other feedback. By day 3 even my dreams were structured. The people in the workshop were very diverse, some had no teaching experience while others had been teaching for over 10 years. I loved that everyone came from a different department, which meant I got to think about politics, history, geography, ecology… it was fantastic. I would like to think that my background in ECCE gave me a head-start, because I already think about children and students as participants in their learning. Others struggled with this idea and wanted to “teach” or “lecture”.<\/p>\n

Being back at work this morning and trying out some of my new skills was a big success. My curriculum development class was beautiful with lots of participation. It just flew by. After class I bumped into a few colleagues on my way to my office and talked for a while. I signed up for a conference. Being an instructor was a little bit easier today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week was reading week – you already know that I went to visit Kerstin & John and my nephews for the long weekend. Once I returned to Vancouver I attended\u00a0 participated in an\u00a0THE\u00a0Instructional Skills Workshop. Every day we\u00a0presented\u00a0mini lessons … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antje.bitterblog.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}