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A new year of "Teaching Together"






This is my third year with the Canadian Teacher's Federation (CTF, FCE for Fédération canadienne

des enseignantes et des enseignants) "Teaching Together or TT (Enseigner Ensembe or EE.)"

It used to be called "Project Overseas"--in fact, it was still called that my first year. CTF wanted to change the name from "project," which sounds a little like Canadians fixing problems elsewhere as their pet project, to a name that reflected the collaboration and cooperation between Canada's federation and the those of other countries. We all belong to "Education International." In fact, those of us who are team leaders went to Ottawa in February for training and were addressed by Cassandra Halle, our then Executive Director, for the last time, because she became Deputy General Secretary for EI! I found her inspiring and feel happy (and proud) that she will represent Canadian educators so well. Two years ago the first new name that CTF came up with was even better--International Collaboration in Education, which really expressed the sense of collaboration we are aiming for, but unfortunately the acronym is ICE which we could NOT do! 

 Education International

Check out the information about Teaching Together. Arla, in the video, is with us this year as a team leader. She's awesome. I strongly encourage all teacher friends to consider applying--the experience is fulfilling in ways that we don't expect. I love it!

Teaching Together


Team Guyana

We have a lovely team, Katrina from Alberta, Melinda from Nova Scotia and Sarah and I from Ontario.

We will be going to Georgetown where we will plan with our co-facilitators and then go north to Charity where we will spend two weeks working with Guyanese teachers who will be learning class management strategies, learning styles, leadership strategies and instructional strategies. These are the subject areas chosen by the Guyana Teacher's Union and we four will partner with their four facilitators. 

Fun is coming! Stay tuned!


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