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Cariboo-Chilcotin Teachers of Inclusive Education
School District #27 |
Chapter Report - March 2021
Good day to all from the Cariboo Chilcotin TIE-BC chapter. We have a great group of ladies within our chapter ranging from School Psychologists, Speech Language Pathologists, Special Education Teachers and classroom teachers. We started off this year debating on what we would like to do and discussed our direction in September. We met through Teams but found that many of us were weary of video chats so we took the opportunity to just take a break from this. We chose to take on a book review as our goal for the 2020-21 year. We used our monies from TIE-BC and our Pro-D Grant to buy books for the group (11 in total).
The book we chose was How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene (which looks at the research of the brain and why brains learn better than machines). Marianne Okrainetz (teacher) and Charlotte Lundeen (SLP) are still working on Sound Walls at the Marie Sharpe School in Williams Lake. They are working together to trial whether the use of sound walls and Guided Reading assists the learning and understanding of the reading process and how it is learned and processed by a K/1 class.
Our goal is to hopefully meet in April outside on a field to have a great face-to-face chat. Fatigue and Covid-19 has put a damper on this year's fun group get-togethers.
Thank you for the monies to continue on this important pathway.
Jacqueline (Jacqui) Ferguson
SD27 Cariboo Chilcotin
Resource Room Teacher
The book we chose was How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene (which looks at the research of the brain and why brains learn better than machines). Marianne Okrainetz (teacher) and Charlotte Lundeen (SLP) are still working on Sound Walls at the Marie Sharpe School in Williams Lake. They are working together to trial whether the use of sound walls and Guided Reading assists the learning and understanding of the reading process and how it is learned and processed by a K/1 class.
Our goal is to hopefully meet in April outside on a field to have a great face-to-face chat. Fatigue and Covid-19 has put a damper on this year's fun group get-togethers.
Thank you for the monies to continue on this important pathway.
Jacqueline (Jacqui) Ferguson
SD27 Cariboo Chilcotin
Resource Room Teacher
Chapter Report - February 2020
Our Williams Lake group has been enjoying monthly meetings discussing literacy and developing programs that will assist our students to achieve greater levels of success in literacy based learning. Our group has a variety of Learning/Resource Support Teachers, Classroom Teachers (Primary, Intermediate and High School), Counsellors, Autism Specialists, Speech Language Pathologists and School Psychologists working together to discuss topics and enjoy one another's wealth of knowledge. We have been looking at books that support the full encompassing of reading, comprehension, phonological awareness, phonemes and so much more (Kilpatrick, Harvey, Greer, Greene, etc.) Two of our colleagues, Walton and Okrainetz, have been trying sound walls and phoneme awareness in their classes and are seeing improvements daily. Many of our colleagues are also developing all encompassing programs using rhyming, nursery rhymes, letter recognition, letter sound and blending in their primary classes to enhance their guided reading, Daily 5 and literacy programs. We are looking towards the future and focusing on creating Pro-Ds and programs that could be used in the schools by any of our many teachers. We have developed a strong, motivated and great team of ladies who are becoming driven to support all. We look forward to continue next year in SD 27. For any more information, please ask Lacey-Dawn Testawich, Anita Davidson, or Melanie Baerg who are present at Crosscurrents this year.
Thank you and keep up the great work.
Thank you and keep up the great work.
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