ESST Final Representation

Creating and committing myself to a pledge was a kind of new experience for me, I wasn’t sure how I felt about it at first—I wasn’t sure I would hold myself to my goal. It also made me bit uncomfortable because of the pressure I had originally put on myself. I was thinking about what …

Working with my pledge

Over the weekend I found another article that I think will help prepare me to help support my future students. The piece I read this week is about supporting children who act out, called When Students Act Out. This article takes us through six positive support strategies to help support and help to correct certain behavioural …

Update on my new pledge

With this very busy time of assignments and tests, I have fallen behind my pledge slightly.  The week I decided to commit to my pledge I read an article on Global News in BC. I forgot to update my blog so we get a double dose this week. The article was about the acknowledgement of how …

Decision to Commit to a New Pledge

While reading through my classmates blogs and providing feedback, I was inspired to recommit myself to a pledge and a plan. I have chosen a new, more specific pledge. My pledge is to learn more about the secret, silent battles my students may be fighting, and how to help them as best I can. Students …

Citizenship Update

Over the last few weeks, I have been struggling to keep up with my pledge, as well as all my classes, my job, and my life. I am searching for a way to fit in my pledge or to modify it, in order to make it more manageable, but for now I will continue doing …

Week 2/3 Active Citizenship Pledge

The last few weeks have been very hectic for me. The week we made our pledges, I was in a minor accident that aggravated some underlying health issues and injuries of mine. Due to this I have been unable to be as active in my community than I would have liked. I have had a …

My Citizenship Pledge

I have thought and learned more about the term 'citizenship', what it means, and how to be a good or engaged citizen more in my last two years at university than ever in my school education. I find it kind of hard to believe that we aren't (or I wasn't) taught more of this in …