Carrie Powers
I Have Never Met Anyone Like You!
When I first became a teacher way back in 1996, I knew I had a great deal to learn on how to be an effective teacher. I knew I had enough...
top of page
Search
Carrie Powers
Aug 31, 20224 min read
How I Prepared For Teacher Interviews
Over my 25 year career as a teacher, I prepared for and went through over 20 interviews. The number is so high because I chose to live...
6 views0 comments
Carrie Powers
Aug 31, 20229 min read
"I HATE Writing!!!"
“I hate writing!” my student proclaimed to me one day in the month of February, 2021. I wasn’t surprised in the slightest, for with a...
2 views0 comments
Carrie Powers
Aug 31, 20226 min read
My Inuit Adventure
By Carrie Powers I lived in the eastern arctic for four years, from 2007-2011. Even now, I look back and think, “Was that real? Did I...
5 views0 comments
Carrie Powers
Aug 31, 20227 min read
Can He Actually RUN?!!?
By Carrie Powers It was my third year as a teacher way back in 1999. I had just been given my dream job as the Health and Physical...
7 views0 comments
Carrie Powers
Aug 31, 20224 min read
My Favourite Teacher
We all have a favourite teacher. A teacher, who in our lives as students has really inspired us, coached us, motivated us, encouraged us...
2 views0 comments
Carrie Powers
Aug 31, 20226 min read
"Patience!!"
Some people have commented to me over the years on how ‘patient’ I am. That comes as a surprise to me. You see, I haven't always been...
2 views0 comments
Carrie Powers
Aug 31, 20225 min read
Finding Your Passion In Life - Is It As Easy As It Sounds?
By Carrie Powers M.Ed., OCT We have all heard these words before. Many times. Maybe too many to count. We have had our parents, teachers...
10 views0 comments
Carrie Powers
Aug 31, 20229 min read
Running Our Hearts Out
Holy Trinity School, North Vancouver, B.C. It was September, 2015 and I was in a lot of trouble. In front of me I was looking attentively...
1 view0 comments
Carrie Powers
Sep 8, 20207 min read
How COVID 19 Will Strengthen Our Kids
The realities of COVID 19 for families have provoked many thoughts, emotions and a new way of being. Here in Ontario we recently moved to...
1 view0 comments
Carrie Powers
Sep 8, 20204 min read
Summer Learning School 2020
This past July I ran my first learning pod summer program for a group of 6 students in Toronto. For people that are not in education...
6 views0 comments
Carrie Powers
May 12, 20204 min read
Benefits of Being Home During COVid 19
A reflection piece that was published in Canadian Teacher magazine, Spring online issue
4 views0 comments
Carrie Powers
Nov 6, 20192 min read
How to Have FUN While Teaching
So often teachers get caught up in teaching everything that is on their long term and short term plans to their students each day....
17 views
Carrie Powers
Apr 5, 20193 min read
Teaching P.E. From a Sociocultural Perspective, Ryerson University
On Thursday, April 4th, I was asked to give a presentation on Teaching Physical Education (P.E.) from a sociocultural perspective to a...
4 views0 comments
Carrie Powers
Nov 12, 20182 min read
"Are you here for the Teachers or the Kids??"
At the end of a very long day supply teaching in a grade 2 class, a confident and curious 7- year-old boy approached me in the classroom...
9 views0 comments
Carrie Powers
I Have Never Met Anyone Like You!
When I first became a teacher way back in 1996, I knew I had a great deal to learn on how to be an effective teacher. I knew I had enough...
Carrie Powers
How I Prepared For Teacher Interviews
Over my 25 year career as a teacher, I prepared for and went through over 20 interviews. The number is so high because I chose to live...
Carrie Powers
"I HATE Writing!!!"
“I hate writing!” my student proclaimed to me one day in the month of February, 2021. I wasn’t surprised in the slightest, for with a...
bottom of page