Tuesday's Speaker!

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to get everyone excited about the speaker coming on Tuesday! I am pretty sure that it is Adrian French, who is a Social Studies teacher at Mount Doug. During observation I had the privilege of watching his class numerous times and he is incredibly engaging and passionate about teaching Social Studies. I was also fortunate enough to observe his mosaic class which was awesome. The students were given a piece of the mosaic, a colour scheme, and a topic about WWI and they were to visually represent their topic on their piece using the colour scheme assigned. Once the students had handed in their pieces, Adrian put together the mosaic and it was really amazing. Then after the mosaic was put together the class participated in a "chalk talk." A "chalk talk" is were the class engages in conversations silently by writing on the chalk board. The conversations were prompted by the phrases: "It is good and right to die for ones country" and "In war we gain, in war we lose." Even if the speaker happens to be the other teacher in Victoria who is nominated for a Governor Generals award I wanted to share this experience with you because it is a great example of how Social Studies can come alive in a classroom!