Awards Day – A Poem
While reading and commenting on Amanda C. Dykes’ blog post, “And The Award Goes To…“, I came across this poem (shared by Rebecca as a comment) and I felt I needed to share: Awards Day – by Beth Moore I… Continue Reading
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The Wejr Family Awards
As we approach May, and now that I have 2 daughters, it is time to continue a long standing Wejr Family tradition – the “Weejies” – The Wejr Family Awards. Growing up, I was an A student and a decent… Continue Reading
Awards Prepare Kids For The ‘Real World’ – Really?
I am pleased to have Brian Barry (@nunavut_teacher) as a guest blogger. Brian is a Grade 9 Math/Science teacher from Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada who is passionate about education technology and human motivation. His thoughts on motivation, including rewards and punishment,… Continue Reading
Honouring A Student’s Strength: Story of Daniel
“We don’t know who we can be until we know what we can do.” – Sir Ken Robinson (This was originally guest-posted as an “A-Ha Moment” on Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension. With all the talk about how we changed… Continue Reading
Questioning Awards and Grades
As a result of our school’s decision to end our traditional awards ceremony and the blog post by Janet Steffenhagen, Bill Good of CKNW 980 in Vancouver interviewed me and hosted callers on the topic of awards, grades, and motivation… Continue Reading
Is Learning A Sport?
“Schools are not about awarding the best and brightest, but developing the best and brightest. Awards take away from this. We can not let our own bias of our own school experience or beliefs get in the way of what… Continue Reading
Good Luck, Thank You, Farewell
I have been asked by a few parents to post my Farewell Speech to the Grade 6’s that was said at our Grade 6 Year-End Honouring Ceremony June 24th, 2010: When principals come up and give farewell speeches to classes… Continue Reading
A New Era of Ceremonies
If you read a previous post, “Death of an Awards Ceremony“, you are well aware of the change that Kent Elementary School made this past month. The staff decided to abolish all the awards and honour roll recognition and replace… Continue Reading
Death of an Awards Ceremony
This is the time of the year that most schools are meeting and arguing over who is the top student in a variety of categories; high schools have selected their valedictorian (mostly based on who has the highest grades) and… Continue Reading