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Ventures into the unknown

By JO on May 9, 2016

I grew up in Burnaby, BC and now live in Vancouver. I teach secondary French, Science and PE to 8th and 10th graders and I coach the varsity girls basketball team and moderate the school’s Japanese exchange program and bicycle club. I am part of the Inquiry Learning PLC and will be team teaching in our 8th grade Integrated Studies program next year combining the curricular outcomes for Science, Social Studies and English.

This semester is my fifth in the MET program and I am taking my 8th and 9th courses. I am both excited and nervous about Ventures in Learning Technologies. My intention is to learn more about what is coming down the pipe and how I can use it to improve my teaching practice. Having no experience in the world of business or finance and having only worked a total of two months of my adult life outside of government funded education, I hope that I can get up to speed quick enough to keep pace. Learning more about the way innovation is funded and the language of pitches and persuasion will also be useful to me as look to share some ideas to improve the school I work at.

I have learned and taught in Vancouver, Quebec City, Japan, Mexico and China. Outside of all those classes I took up a few musical instruments and currently play upright bass in a local cover band (with the occasional jam at the local bluegrass club). I have season tickets to the local soccer and football teams and when I am not working, studying, visiting family, playing music or watching live sport, my wife and I take part in endurance cycling events on our tandem bicycle.

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15 May Posted on Ventures into the unknown

Our school had a sister school relationship with one in Kyoto prefecture and I recently took over the selection of: kids, homestay families from among our school population and activities when our Japanese friends come. In alternating years they send 6-15 kids one year and then we send a group the next year. Japanese schools like to have their 10th graders go on these trips as the 11th and 12th graders are preparing for university entrance exams. I have hosted the two week program here twice and gone to Japan once in the 3 years I have been overseeing the program. We also have two one-day visits each year from two other schools but these are set up by Canadian agencies that work with the Japanese travel agency JTB. With respect to language, it is not much of barrier. I learned Japanese during my two years in the JET Program but that was 15 years ago now and the rust has not an impediment to our exchange activities. Most of the Japanese teachers and travel agents that you would work with speak English decent level and they appreciate my efforts to recall long lost words. If there is more that you'd like to know, send me an email with specific questions and we can continue the discussion outside the course.

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Our school had a sister school relationship with one in Kyoto prefecture and I recently took over the selection of: kids, homestay families from among our school population and activities when our Japanese friends come. In alternating years they send 6-15 kids one year and then we send a group the next year. Japanese schools like to have their 10th graders go on these trips as the 11th and 12th graders are preparing for university entrance exams. I have hosted the two week program here twice and gone to Japan once in the 3 years I have been overseeing the program. We also have two one-day visits each year from two other schools but these are set up by Canadian agencies that work with the Japanese travel agency JTB. With respect to language, it is not much of barrier. I learned Japanese during my two years in the JET Program but that was 15 years ago now and the rust has not an impediment to our exchange activities. Most of the Japanese teachers and travel agents that you would work with speak English decent level and they appreciate my efforts to recall long lost words. If there is more that you'd like to know, send me an email with specific questions and we can continue the discussion outside the course.

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10 May Posted on Ventures into the unknown

Hello I'm interesed in your "Japan" exchange program. Our school has recently started up an exchange with a school in Melbourne, Australia, and I'd be interested to see how well an exchange with a non-English speaking country would work. Any information you could pass along would be great! I would especially invite the opportunity to go on exchange as a teacher (my Japanese is rusty, but I'm sure I could brush up on it!).

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cquarrie @cquarrie

Hello I'm interesed in your "Japan" exchange program. Our school has recently started up an exchange with a school in Melbourne, Australia, and I'd be interested to see how well an exchange with a non-English speaking country would work. Any information you could pass along would be great! I would especially invite the opportunity to go on exchange as a teacher (my Japanese is rusty, but I'm sure I could brush up on it!).

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Let me know if you have any course recommendations. Seeing as I'm only at 2/10 any suggestions would be helpful.

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mme_dl @sdillonl

Let me know if you have any course recommendations. Seeing as I'm only at 2/10 any suggestions would be helpful.

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