March 11, 2024

Dear Teacher Hotline – Process Checklist

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Thanks for coming to the Voc Talk Café and if you weren’t able to make it, no worries! You can check out the recording, discussion notes and resources on the Voc Talk Café by Après-cours website page here, and read the session summary below!

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February 5, 2024

Dear Teacher Hotline – Lesson of the Day

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The Dear Teacher Hotline is…

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January 29, 2024 What if the students made the Powerpoint?

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The Digital Open…

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Hello everyone! I came across this free webinar on Nov 22, 2023 about First Nations’ food sovereignty, co-hosted by the independent journalism initiative, the Narwhal. They have lots of great articles on climate change and how it affects food systems in Canada. Check out their website here:

The Narwhal – Nourish series

Have a great day,

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November 6, 2023 Food and Tourism: Are Digital Libraries the Future of Education?

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Thanks for coming to the Voc Talk Café and if you weren’t able to make it, no worries! You can check out the recording, discussion notes and resources on the Voc Talk Café by Après-cours website page here, and read the session summary below!…

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Oct 30, 2023

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Thanks for coming to the Voc Talk Café this week to discuss sustainability in the construction trades! If you weren’t able to make it, no worries! You can check out the summary below, and look at the recording and session notes on the Voc Talk Café by Après-cours website here!

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The meeting aimed to explore…

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Oct 16, 2023: The Future of the Trade

Hello everyone! If you missed this week’s Voc Talk café, here is the summary. You can check out the recording and minutes on the Voc Talk café by Après-cours website!

As a society, we enjoy eating out and having a dining experience and the front of the house staff is an integral part of this. We recognise…

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May 29, 2023

In this inaugural Voc Talk café by Après-Cours, we discussed how the food programs have an inherent cultural bias, and we wondered how this affects student learning. Western European (re: French) eating habits are the assumed norm in the program, however we all come from diverse multicultural, socio-economic backgrounds and have…

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CEN PROVINCIAL MEETING – MAY 31, 2023

A new CHAT feature has been implemented on the vt.procede.ca site, allowing users to ask questions directly to Robin or VT support. The CEN liaisons provided an overview of their year, discussing both positives and areas for improvement. Robin explained the CEN Year End Report, emphasizing its importance in…

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CEN PROVINCIAL MEETING – FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The CEN liaisons shared their plans for upcoming professional development and expressed positive feedback on workshops recently hosted or attended. The Professional Development Forms & Guidelines were reviewed, directing the members on what to do before, during and after a professional development…

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Cool! PERT does interesting research. What were some of the ideas about language learning on the job? Anything that we could incorporate into our teaching in VT?

Great to hear! Let us know about your experience – it will be interesting to hear about practices that we can use in VT!

Hello everyone! Do you teach French in your the program of study? Is it on your mind that students need to improve their French language skills? PERT Quebec, the research think-tank on Anglophones in the Quebec workforce, is holding a series of free webinars this June on best practices in French language learning for adults in the…

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Hello everyone!

I am working on a project that highlights the great teaching that you do through everyday teaching tasks. In this project, I collect your ‘happy teaching moments’ and create a poster that I share with you. I will also display the posters at the upcoming ACE conference, and on the PROCEDE websites to act as inspiration to…

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Hello! 👋 Thank you for joining vocational training teacher online community!

Please take a moment to look at the two trade resources posted below. One is a freemium online software that lets you create great infographics, Canva, and the other is a library of free, open source online courses to improve digital skills, Digital…

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Hello Travel Sales teachers! Are you familiar with the website 360 Schools? They have THOUSANDS of images of places around the world in 360 degree format, for free! You sign up and create an account, but you can access the images and share them with your students. The images are best viewed on a mobile device, but I can see how this might be…

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More cool AR stuff! I found a series of 360 degree videos about different workforce situations, introducing a trade. Cooking, Healthcare, Welding, Manufacturing – there are a whole bunch! It gave me the idea to do an activity in Competency 1 Trade and Training Process where the students can ‘discover’ the typical tasks of the trade in a…

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What do you think about VR in healthcare simulations? Did you experience it in your trade, and do you think it could be part of vocational training? It is cost effective and can give you clinical experience in a safe, low-stakes environment. Check out this website for more information: https://oxfordmedicalsimulation.com/

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I am a big fan of podcasts and recently, I was listening to one of my favouite shows, Offline by Crooked Media, and I came across an episode that discussed the role of the metaverse in training, especially training for situations that we couldn’t create in real life to practice – medical emergencies, or constructions situations…

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That is interesting! Nice to see vocational programs being featured in media exercises usually reserved for higher education. It gives weight to the validity of our educational training programs. I do have a couple of thoughts…

1. Are the salaries listed when a graduate enters the workforce, or is it a different metric, after a few…

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Did you ever think that social media could be used to learn about Office software? No? Have you ever heard of Miss Excel on Tiktok? If you haven’t, boy-o-boy are you missing out! This young woman makes Tiktok videos on how to use Excel, what formulas are good for solving which problems, formatting and general efficiency tips & tricks. I…

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Just released! April 2022 Voc Talk newsletter!

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Hello Teachers! I came across this article and I thought I would share. As voc teachers, we give lectures to get the critical content knowledge across before going into the lab with the students. In this article, it outlines some good practices for lecture learning – brain breaks, avoiding the ‘brain dump’ practice, low-stakes quiz during…

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Hello everyone! I have encountered some educators talking about using 🎮 Discord as a learning management system instead of the more traditional LMS’. For younger students, it is a platform that they are familiar with and lends itself well to communication and collaboration. Have any of you experimented with it? Seen it in action? If so,… Read more

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Hello everyone! I have been having some interesting discussions about how to develop a better grasp of digital tools, for both you and your students. I have found some great resources:

DigitalLearning.org – great learning capsules of different digital skills, offered at different levels. Good for both teachers and students!

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Some of you may remember the old (almost) everything tech ‘n teaching newsletter that I used to publish. Well, I am starting it up again 👍 but this time, it is about more than just tech integration into teaching. It will feature some tools, some discussions, some cool things teachers are doing, some cool resources and…

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There are so many ways of communicating with people today – talking, telephoning, snail mail, email, text, DM, oh my!

I have a question for the voc teachers based on a problem that teachers from LBPSB are having – how do you communicate with students? Before, the vocational teachers at LBPSB were using Google Chat to connect…

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Many of us have heard of the SAMR technology integration model, but are you familiar with TPACK? I mean, SAMR is great, but one of the things I don’t like is the visual hierarchy associated with the infographic visual representations. The TPACK model is a more holistic approach to tech integration, taking into account content, pedagogical and…

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I think we have all had situations where our students struggle with learning challenges, and we struggle to adjust our teaching to help them, and in the end, everyone is frustrated. Well, Microsoft is offering a series of free, 1 hour webinars to help teachers understand and help students with dyslexia. What I found…

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We are not the only ones preoccupied with teaching students how to decide what information is legitimate and what is not true! The European Commission is offering a one-hour webinar on Oct 12 about online reading skills & information disorder, offering research and workshop ideas about how to effectively incorporate this into your teaching.…

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