I love a good challenge. One of the most important things I feel like I can do for my own professional development is to challenge my thoughts, beliefs, and comforts on a daily basis. Sometimes, I do this by giving myself new tasks to learn. Sometimes, it’s by reinventing the things I already know how […]

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My name is Melanie Casandra Bellwood. I am a Filipinx/British teacher candidate in the Bachelors of Education program at the University of Northern British Columbia. I am a learner who has spent the last decade situating myself within the context of my environment, my heritage, and myself. Today, I find that I am a hundred […]

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My #oneword for this year is positivity. One of the most difficult aspects of last year’s practicum was that I felt incapable of sharing good moments with others because it seemed like everyone was focused on the negative. “It’s been a terrible year, I feel disorganized, I feel disconnected, I don’t have any faith in […]

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I want to start this post by clarifying that EDUC 490 was one of the most fulfilling educational and career experiences in my life. The opportunity to complete on-the-job training with a support system as strong as my professional triad, my informal septad, and my friends and family made my tiny 4-week experience enjoyable, beautiful, […]

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As a teacher candidate during the time of COVID-19, I have had the opportunity to experience Professional Development on a variety of levels. This time last year, I was attending in-person PRO-D conferences that were hosted by School District #57. I got to see workshops on the life-cycles of salmon, traditional Indigenous knowledge, geographical representations of Canada’s most devastating […]

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