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Teaching

Interactions with students

Through daily life and experiences people have their own sense making about the world around them and our relation to it. This creates and/or maintains the narrative that science is normal and is for everyone. Learning spaces should strive to build relationships with students and schools, make topics relatable to their audiences, and affirm students' knowledge. Children’s first learning happens at home. For many people home and their neighborhood is the teaching place and school can be an addition. There are different forms of schooling throughout the world. This is why it is very important to support the student’s whole self. To best support a student, an educator needs and wants to transform themselves and as well as be a resource for the students they wish to teach. Self- transformation is the key to supporting others. As educators we want to do what is best for our students and people we teach so we need resources for ourselves.

In the Life of a Burke Mobile Educator 

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Burke Museum  Age of Dinos
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Virtual Teaching - When It Rains, It Pours 

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Appreciation from students

Rain is essential to our lives, especially in a region where it happens so often! This series build students' understanding of the interactions that storm water has with ecosystems and communities they inhabit.  Led by IslandWood educators. I taught over 25 different schools and 500+ students through out Greater Seattle area. Each lesson is 45 min long and encompasses a variety of activities that starts with land acknowledgment and includes visualations, models, videos, sharing stories from students. Students are the experts and I am there to add tools to their successful learning. 
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Lesson 1 - Storm water and Me
Lesson 2- Storm water and Ecosystems
Lesson 3 - Engineering Solutions

Peer Observation

During my time at IslandWood Graduate Program, peer observation was a practice used to reflect and improve instructional skills. My peer observed me and wrote me feedback notes about Lesson 1, which led me to focus the next lesson on slowing down on the visualization/ imagination activity which meant I would give students more processing time and breaths between questions. 
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