by Richard Galloway | Dec 18, 2014 | portfolio, teaching, Uncategorized
My Practicum is over. I’ve not been in a classroom for six days and as I sit here in Whitehorse editing pictures for my blog I am suddenly hit by the realization that I miss my students. I have worked on and off in schools for eight years, three of them as a...
by Richard Galloway | Dec 2, 2014 | for parents, in the classroom, portfolio, Uncategorized
Today we had some visitors in the class. Bobby the owner of Fisherman’s Pride Seafood Shop very kindly brought in some lobsters for our G2 class to look at. Did you know that one claw is the hammer and the other is used for cutting? The...
by Richard Galloway | Nov 27, 2014 | for parents, in the classroom, portfolio, Uncategorized
An Acadian Festival Schools are places of learning. For instance before I began at my current school, I did not know there was a place called Meteghan or anything about its rich Acadian culture. A culture that my ancestors did their best to...
by Richard Galloway | Nov 23, 2014 | for parents, portfolio, teaching, teaching art, Uncategorized
Grizzly Bears by 2v Inspired by NORVAL MORRISSEAU If you hadn’t noticed art is an important part of what I want to do as an educator within the classroom. I think it plays an important part in providing a rounded education for students. I have...
by Richard Galloway | Nov 4, 2014 | for parents, in the classroom, portfolio, teaching art, Uncategorized
2V had a wonderful time creating their own monsters. It involved design, writing, drafting and neat copy as well as some intense art activity to create these terrifying monsters. If you’d like to see more then you can here. (You’ll need the class...