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What’s the most important thing you have learned in your careers about teaching students? Answer: The most important thing we’ve learned has been at the heart of our teaching all along — the importance of building connections/relationships first and focusing on the academic curriculum to follow. In order to have success with students, creating a relationship built on trust that honors our students’ values and beliefs is essential. How do you motivate yourselves every day? Answer: We a...

What’s the most important thing you have learned in your career about teaching students? Answer: That you need to find a memorable and engaging way to teach important concepts in order to make the learning stick. This could look like dressing up like a superhero or a word scientist to teach reading, writing and phonics lessons. It might also look like putting passwords on your door frame for students to read every time that they enter or leave the classroom. Students will often be seen manip...

What’s the most important thing you have learned in your careers about teaching students? Answer: We’ve learned that building strong, meaningful relationships with students is by far the most important component in engaging, inspiring and motivating students to do their best, be their best, and feel proud of all their efforts. This year we built outstanding relationships with our students, families, colleagues and community by truly listening to their needs, interests and hopes for a year...

What’s the most important thing you have learned in your career about teaching students? Answer: The importance of building relationships. The relationships I have created between my students and I make me a more effective educator. The relationship signals to my students that I care about them as a person, more than I care about their homework, assessments or grades. This foundation helps us, both teacher and students, build a classroom community focused on respect and learning. If my studen...

The City of Timmins has officially adopted the 2021-22 Community Safety and Well-Being Plan. Council made the decision during its meeting on Tuesday, after receiving the final report and listening to a presentation from Trimeda president Melanie Verreault. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Community safety and well-being plan targets troubling trends Back to video “This journey started back in the fall of 2019 and here we are almost 18 months late...

City council received an update on the Indigenous Engagement Framework during Tuesday’s meeting. Dave Landers, the city’s chief administrative officer, outlined some of the latest developments, while making a presentation to accompany the written 2020 Report Back on Progress. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. “In 2019, council approved a draft Indigenous Engagement Framework,” he said. “Direction was provided at that point in time to turn th...

Questions had been brought forward concerning notices of disruption in services

Council agrees to memorandum of understanding

City CAO encourages alert subscriptions SHARE ON: (pixabay.com) The top appointed official at Timmins City Hall is trying to get more people to sign up for disruption alerts. Chief Administrative Officer  Dave Landers told council Tuesday that it’s as easy as going to timmins.ca and subscribing to alerts of things like water service disruptions and snow removal schedules. They go to your cell phone or computer. “Our media partners all receive these and are very good at sharing the im...

Article content One of the presentations that was presented at the Council meeting of Jan 26 was about a tax exemption for Cadence Residence. When Cadence Residence was built in 2015 in a partnership with the Town of Cochrane, CGV Builders and Cochrane District Social Services Administration Board (CDSSAB), the town had agreed to give the facility a tax exemption for five years with an extension of five more. However, the five year extension was retracted and council wanted more information pr...