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Sep 22, 2024
Exploring Capstone Projects
Project 1: Presentation 2- University of Alberta  This project described the relationship between reading, anxiety, and trauma in...
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Sep 17, 2024
Capstone Introduction
Welcome to the end of my PME program. Here is a video of my last introduction post. Queen's University, Grant Hall, November 2019
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Aug 30, 2024
Critical and Creative Thinking Reflection
For my final post on creativity, I decided to share this upcycled bathtub of herbs that my friend keeps at their cottage up in Northern...
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Aug 30, 2024
Teaching for Creativity Assignment
Please see the attached link for my Teaching for Creativity assignment. References Bolden, B., DeLuca, C., Kukkonen, T., Roy, S., &...
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Aug 14, 2024
Thinking Strategies for Creativity
This week, I explored the following strategies that I thought might work well in my classroom context. These included the fishbone...
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Aug 5, 2024
Trying a New Creative Activity
Link to creative process video For this activity, I decided to finally make the painting that I have wanted to do ever since I was...
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Aug 3, 2024
Definition of Creativity
I have always considered myself to be a creative person. I grew up taking music lessons, practiced art, and used creativity as a means of...
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Aug 3, 2024
Teaching for Critical Thinking Assignment Pt. 2
Critical Thinking Scenerio Rewrite Activity Rewritten Scenerio: Playing a musical instrument may not be Mr. Yeung’s forte, but he enjoys...
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Aug 3, 2024
Teaching for Critical Thinking Assignment Pt. 1
Please see this link for my revised lesson plan that encourages critical thinking practices. References Case, R. (2005). Bringing...
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Jul 28, 2024
Strengths and Weaknesses in Pedagogy for Critical Thinking
After going through this week’s readings, I think two of my strengths are encouraging a community of thinkers as well as inviting...
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Jul 18, 2024
Teaching Strategies for Critical Thinking
I chose to do this activity with one of my grade one piano students. One of the challenges any beginner pianist experiences is...
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Jul 11, 2024
Critical Thinking on Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy is an educational hierarchical model created in 1956 that focuses on three domains of learning: cognitive, affective,...
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Jul 9, 2024
Course Intro: Creative Thinkers
I am attaching a photo of these flowers, (Phalaenopsis orchids, Dendrobium orchids, and the Concord Blue Streptocarpus Saxorum) that I...
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Jun 19, 2024
Major Analysis of a Creative Experience
Attached is a link to my analysis of a creative experience. My creative project was learning the bass guitar. I have been playing for...
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Jun 7, 2024
PD Presentation to Colleagues
Attached is a copy of my workshop PD presentation. This is a cross-curricular lesson which combines Music, Visual Arts, Science, and...
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Jun 3, 2024
Cultivating Creativity Assignment
Attached is a copy of my lesson plan for my cultivating creativity assignment. This is a lesson plan for a Grade 9 Instrumental Band...
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Jun 2, 2024
Guiding Creativity
As a music teacher, opportunity for creativity seems to be naturally embedded into our curriculum. It is possible to have structure and...
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May 24, 2024
Cultivating Creativity PD Ideas
For my PD presentation, I am going to be researching ways to cultivate creativity through interdisciplinary subjects which include Music,...
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May 22, 2024
Inviting Creativity
For my Cultivating Creativity assignment, I will be introducing a composition assignment to my Grade 9 Instrumental Music class. Students...
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May 19, 2024
Proposal for Major Analysis of Creative Experience
Attached is a copy of my proposal for my major analysis of a creative experience. For my creative experience, I am going to learn the...
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May 19, 2024
Mini-Analysis of Past Creative Experience
There was a period of my young adult life where I found myself at my most creative. It was the Spring of 2023, and I was working for two...
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May 15, 2024
Cultivating Your Creativity
In the blog of creativity-building exercises by Phil McKinney that I found, I tried out a handful of strategies to see if they would be...
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May 12, 2024
Creative Process Model Assignment
In my research, I found two creative process models that appealed to me. One is from the global organizational development firm New and...
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May 12, 2024
Creative Processes
Attached is a copy of my creative process model. While I designed it for the high school music classroom in mind, I think many aspects...
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