Twin Rivers Education Centre
Visual Storytelling
A SET-BC Synergy Project
We are back, but not back to normal. Half my day feels like it is taken up by sanitising everything in sight, my hands are raw from washing and sanitising, and my classes are eerily quiet. Group work is no more and everyone is staying seated more than ever before. My teaching practice needs to change and I am so thankful for the technology I have available through my SET-BC Synergy project!
This year, I’ve needed to be more flexible than ever before as we adapt to the ever changing landscape. My project has evolved somewhat because of Covid, but it is gaining popularity and is allowing students to really show me what they can do. It often takes some convincing to get my students to buy in, but it’s incredible to see what they can create once they dive in. A student that witnessed domestic abuse made a powerful video telling a fictionalised story of a woman overcoming abuse and finding her strength. The student did a photo shoot where she did her own makeup to look like she had been badly beaten and to look like it was healing. She took chilling self portraits and set them to music. She added statistics about domestic abuse and narrated the fictionalised story of finding her strength. It created a powerful visual to add to the impact of her story. Sadly, because of her history, I cannot share her powerful video.
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AuthorErin Fletcher is a humanities teacher at Twin Rivers Education Centre in Kamloops, BC. Archives
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