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Exit Slip: Praise, blame, mindset and student engagement - Alfie Kohn & Jo Boaler

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Exit Slip: Flipped Classrooms

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Exit Slip: Reflections on UBC Orchard Garden experiences

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Today we visited the UBC Orchard Garden and my experience, as a prospective teacher was one much different than I have had before. This time around, I took in the garden as a place of learning. It was a place where I could engage my senses and gain a sense of wonder for the space I was in. Susan did an excellent job of allowing us to show our wonder via the drawing activity we did. We were asked to draw man-made and natural things we saw but I found myself spending all 30 minutes drawing a pumpkin and a bit of its background. One thing I learned from this activity was that when drawing man-made objects there is often a start, and a stop. Contrastingly when I was drawing this pumpkin I saw the stem attached to another plant and the plant attached to the ground and the ground holding other pumpkins and insects on the leaves and on and on and on…What I took away from this is that natural objects are continuous, and are all interconnected. This struck a bell for teaching in...
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