Our+Meaningful+Contexts

The students of ETEC 512 section B identified the following contexts in which they are applying their work in the MET programme. We apologize if the situations were taken out of context (feel free to re-assign the category, describe in more depth, etc, if it applies to you). These situations are taken directly from the biographies posted by the course participants in September.

**Focus Question:** Looking at the different categories/backgounds of students in the class, what aspects of constructivism can create a productive learning community? Are there places in which a constructivist approach would be more successful? Which environments lend themselves particularly well to the application of constructivist theories? Post your thoughts and responses on the symposium under the appropriate heading.

**Adult Eduction** I currently work in peace operations in my job as a Learning Design Officer with the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre. I work for a technology company offering e-Learning products and services to clients from the Higher Education and Corporate markets. I manage a courseware development team (mainly instructional designers, multimedia specialists, content developers …etc). I have been teaching for just over 10 years now and have found my home in the Vancouver School Board's adult education system. I am currently starting my fifth year of teaching. My teaching assignment is multigrade 5-8 ELA and math in the mornings, and multigrade 1-8 core subjects in the afternoons. I am also responsible for supervising our high school students who receive their education through a two-way video conferencing system linked with fourteen other small schools in my division, which currently has three studios broadcasting high school courses full time. What I am interested in is digital game based learning in Chinese 4-5 years elementary schools and utilizing digital games that based on mobile phones to build interactions and collaborations among kids. I'm an elementary school teacher living in Vancouver I'm an elementary school teacher for a school in the Vancouver area, though I'm currently on maternity leave. I teach Social Studies, Law, and History at Surrey Connect (an online high-school). I am a high school science teacher in Chilliwack, BC. I am a high school teacher in North Vancouver. I teach Business Education including Marketing 11, Marketing 12, Business Education 9 and AP Economics 12. I am in my 5th year of teaching, a profession which I enjoy more and more every year. I am currently teaching construction and science at the junior high level in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I am a teacher in North Vancouver. Now I teach business ed, info tech, socials and English back home in Vancouver. I am currently the Curriculum Coordinator for the School of Business with SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary, Alberta. I currently lecturer at a teacher training college in Montego Bay Jamaica. I teach Social Studies and related courses at a teachers college in rural Jamaica - Content and methodology. I teach at a teachers' training college. I am employed in a teacher training institution in Jamaica. My area of speciality is mathematics. I currently lecture at Bethlehem Moravian College. I am a lecturer at the tertiary level of the Jamaican education system. Lecturer in Computer Science Lecturer in Education I'm working as a librarian at an international school in Yokohama, Japan. Prior to this, I was teaching at a public high school in Ontario, but I'm now firmly hooked on international teaching. I work at St. Maur International School in Yokohama, Japan. I teach ICT to a variety of grades 1-10.
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 * Post-Secondary Education**
 * Teacher Education**
 * Teaching Abroad**