Twin Rivers Education Centre
Visual Storytelling
A SET-BC Synergy Project
I have a student with a long and deep history of trauma. Their schooling has been highly disrupted and they are a very complex learner. This is the type of student that I designed this project for. This student struggled to complete any task and longed for a connection to their culture. The student took part in a traditional drum-making workshop that our Aboriginal Education Worker facilitated at our school. I saw an opportunity and I took full advantage! I suggested that my student teach me about the process, but since I couldn’t attend the workshop, they could make a video or take some pictures and make a little presentation. They are working well below grade level and have significant difficulties with writing. The student was not willing to be on camera or even to use their recorded voice, but they were willing to teach me with a little slideshow. They gathered some pictures and carefully planned out how to word the steps of the process. Because of the student’s significant struggles with writing, we started the process using a GoPro to record some brainstorming sessions. The student used the GoPro to record audio of our conversations and brainstorming sessions. Once the student had chosen the wording they wanted on the slideshow, they played back the audio while they independently typed up their slides. This was a very big accomplishment for this student. The small slideshow represents over a month’s worth of painstaking work by the student. It represents many edits and many revisions. The student was incredibly proud of their work and was delighted that I chose to share it in my blog. See the pdf of the finished slideshow below.
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AuthorErin Fletcher is a humanities teacher at Twin Rivers Education Centre in Kamloops, BC. Archives
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