Jason Beck

Here is free book study guide: buildingthinkingclassrooms.com/wp-content/upl…

Another thought provoking thread! Great thing to reflect upon on a PD day! twitter.com/ddmeyer/status…

This is a great thread to explore and reflect upon as I work through my next steps in teaching. twitter.com/xphils/status/…

Return to K-12 for public and independent school students is delayed until Monday January 10th. Teachers and staff will return the first week of January to implement enhanced safety measures to support in-class learning. Learn more: gov.bc.ca/safeschools #CovidBC

Great Halloween Spirit at VSS today! Go Panthers!

Good reminder for us all! Thanks @ppatterson13

Part two: since covid has happened, I am rethinking this. I am now posting my PD reading on my webpage to be transparent and in hopes that if this remote learning continues, some of what I post may help parents at home.

Part one: When I started on Twitter, I used it to connect with fellow educators for professional learning and collaboration. As I learned more, I decided I wanted to use an account to post things for students on my website. As I wanted to separate the two, I created, @Mr_Beck23

Hey BC teachers, anyone using the proficiency scale specifically in high school math, science and English? I am interested to hear how your instruction has changed and how you work your assessment. #bced

I just KNOW this tweet will never be retweeted at least 1,000 times. I KNOW it will never receive over 100 replies from awesome people telling what countries they are from because it simply can’t. It’s cool, because I didn’t want my students to see the reach of Twitter anyway.

P4. mistake with a character, a program will not work. If you have done any programming, you know how frustrating this can be. I think this is the place I learned to be a better editor of my work. Just my thoughts on a different reason to learn computer programming.

P3. it came from. Also, I am sure most have seen the reading thing where only the first and last letter matters for us to make sense of the words. I am thinking that because of my interest in programming, I learned to pay attention to the characters between as if you make a

P2. This thought comes from reading S's work and a conversation we as T's had about report card editing. I know we all make mistakes but some are able to minimize these. I tend to do well with this and wondered why. I know it is care and attention to detail but wondered where

P1. We always look at computer programming as being great for logic and reasoning skills as well as the mathematics involved. I have another thought. I might be behind on this but thought I would share anyways as I haven't heard anyone make this connection.

Does anyone know of any research on printing vs writing vs typing in the development of students? I'm interested.

Happy New Year to all!

Ministry has released final 10-12 Curriculum Documents. Not available on Ministry site until April, so on our site until then: bcamt.ca/mathematics-gr…