Twin Rivers Education Centre
Visual Storytelling
A SET-BC Synergy Project
Welcome to our Blog! Twin Rivers Education Centre (TREC) is an alternate high school program for students that struggle in our regular school system. Our school offers students self-paced learning opportunities with support from teachers, support staff, counsellors, and outside agencies. Our programs are flexible and teachers often work collaboratively to best meet the unique needs of our students. Many of our students struggle to engage in their learning because of factors including large gaps in their learning, a history of trauma, mental health issues, and learning disabilities. The goal of our project is to allow all students access to technology that will enable them to demonstrate their learning in new ways. Many of our students have difficulty with written output that results in frustration and avoidance of school work. This project will give students the option to demonstrate their learning with visual texts. Students will still work to improve their writing skills through the planning stages of the assignments, but the final product will be a visual text. Projects can include research videos in place of traditional essays, a video news report in place of a written article, a short film in place of a short story, or other projects that we haven’t even thought of yet! Students will have the freedom to choose topics of interest and will be encouraged to select topics that cover cross-curricular learning outcomes. Our team includes most of our teaching staff and all of the major subject areas that our school offers. Some students have begun the planning process and are eagerly awaiting the delivery of the technology so they can begin production. We are very excited to jump in and see what our students are capable of!
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AuthorErin Fletcher is a humanities teacher at Twin Rivers Education Centre in Kamloops, BC. Archives
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