Issues in Education

In this blog post we are to look at an issue in today's education.  In class Chantelle mentioned some examples we could use.  I am gonna talk about one of the issues she said.  It was about having  a curriculum for daycares.  I think that this is taking it a little far.  I think that is great for kids to be learning at such a young age but I also feel that everyone just needs to chill out a little bit.  Kids in daycare should just be concerned about what game to play next.  Not all children go to daycare and I think this will just make a big gap between the kids that do go to daycare and those that don't.  So in kindergarden it would be very hard to teach these two different levels.  Daycare is very exspensive and those who can't afford it would be even more behind.  Which I feel it unfair.  I think that there is no point of trying to speed along the kids learning when learning these skills in kindergarden is soon enough.

westcast 2011

I attended westcst this year.  I thought it was a great learning experience.  It was a very busy week.  I atteneded some good sessions while I was there.  One of my favorites was the SMART board presentation by Devon Caldwell.  She showed as different ways to use a SMART board while was very informative for me because I have not used a SMART board before.  Another good one I went to was on Kindergarten theme units this showed us some great ideas how to use literature for units.  Another good one was one on keeping students engaged.  She gave us some tips on how to do this.  I liked when she told us to "put things into Ziploc bags, kids get excited about this."  I thought this was true.  Our group also presented.  I thought that it went pretty well and I hope that everyone who attended left learning a little something. 

My favorite thing about westcast was the social events that they had.  The best was the bud and spud night they had at the Roadhouse.  The other events were fun to like the wine and cheese and Suds on Friday.  I am looking forward to attending westcast next year in Calgary.