According to the BCTF document Roles and Responsibilities of Teachers and Teacher Assistants/ Education Assistants the role of the teacher includes designing an instructional program, developing IEPs, planning learning activities, determining appropriate modifications and adaptations in line with IEP goals, identifying the appropriate instructional learning resources, and advocating for the appropriate instructional learning resources when required.

​One of my favourite sayings is, “No problems, just solutions.”

Educators face many challenges today.  Class size and composition, reduction in funding and services, and the adoption of multiple initiatives involving curriculum and reporting.

In my current teaching position I would identify two urgent problems, or as I like to refer to them – challenges.

It is hard to believe that the six week learning project has run it’s course. My Raspberry Pi (RPi) learning journey is ending. However, I know that I will be continuing this project for some time, I have only just begun to scratch the surface of what this little device can do and I am so impressed with the potential that it holds.

Today I decided to turn the Raspberry Pi (RPi) into a media centre, attached to my television so that my boys can watch their movies. We have collected a fair number of videos over the years and I have copied them all onto a hard drive that I attach to my computer which I would then connect to the TV in the games room so that the boys could watch their movies.

This week, after spending quite a bit of time learning a tiny amount about the world of Scratch, I decided to revisit the basic workings of the Raspberry Pi again.  I had read that there are a few simple projects that you can do with different operating systems and I decided to give a few of them a try.