Hello everyone, my name is Lilac and I am a secondary school Music teacher in Toronto, Ontario. I graduated from Queen’s with my Music...

Please find a Prezi version of my final assignment here. Toronto, November 2023

My vision is to foster a safe learning environment for students from all types of cultural, ethnic, and learning backgrounds, while...

Effective alignment addresses outcomes/goals, activities, and assessment (Learners Mindset, 2021). There needs to be a balance between...

Link to our revised mind map As we progressed in this assignment we changed the focus from the philosophies of curriculum to curricular...

We chose to present our Philosophies of Curriculum that we were first introduced to in Module One through a visual mind map. Starting...

Concepts of curriculum are used over time due to historical, societal, and political factors. The biggest factor I have noticed is the...

A Digital "About Me". Link to my video presentation. Kingston, June 2019

For my course culminating task, I have developed a 3-week unit plan on Music composition for secondary school Instrumental Music classes....

The Technology Integration Matrix framework aims to integrate technology into learning in a creative way. Five types of learning...

Loom is a screencasting tool that can be used within education. Users download the extension onto their Chrome browser and are able to...

Overview Sistema Kingston is an after-school music program facilitated by members of Queen’s University Community Music and Queen’s...

The link I am sharing that explores the Arts Commons case study further, are methods for how to incorporate the Arts into the curriculum,...

The case study that I chose to examine for this module was Innovative Learning at Arts Commons. Schools attend Arts Commons for five days...

My mind map can be connected to two pedagogical approaches, experiential learning and project-based learning. These are two theories that...

Link to my mind map In my music classroom teaching context, I am always looking for ways to make connections to other areas of curriculum...

A place that best exemplifies myself and how I connect to others is my music classroom. Growing up, the music classroom was always a safe...

Link to Community Resource Guide for The Beaches, Toronto here. The Beaches, June 2023

I am grateful to have gained valuable new insights from this course that built upon my current professional experiences. A practice I...

I thought that the ideas that Deckers & Zinga (2012) presented were very prevalent to my school situation. In the past few years, the...

I first heard of ChatGPT earlier this year and for a while, was skeptical about the software. Generally, I am wary of AI tools and have...

Leo et al. (2018) describe the importance of moving from family involvement to family partnership and how this has a positive effect on...

Link to Community Newsletter here. Kingston, November 2020

A social justice leadership strategy that Wang (2018) discussed that could be applied to my professional context, is the importance of...