{"id":5873,"date":"2026-03-02T12:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/03\/02\/weekly-reflection-5-5\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:17:54","slug":"weekly-reflection-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/03\/02\/weekly-reflection-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Reflection #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/nathanclark.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10111\/2026\/02\/IMG_3408-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153\"><\/figure>\n<p>Last week I had the opportunity to attend and present at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwinnipeg.ca\/westcast2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.uwinnipeg.ca\/westcast2026\/\">WestCAST<\/a> 2026 in Winnipeg, MB. The conference brought together student teachers from all across Canada to network and attend workshops and presentations.<\/p>\n<p>I delivered a presentation on the importance of relationship building in the classroom and the benefits of communal approach. During my presentation, I shared anecdotes from my own teaching experiences and from observations of mine. I then presented research that backs up benefits of having positive relationships with students and how I have seen evidence of this during extended classroom observations. I ended by facilitating an activity that could be replicated in the classroom. The purpose of the activity was to build community in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>I attended many great workshops and had the opportunity to support my peers during their presentations and workshops. One of the highlights was a french workshop that I attended. It gave me a great chance to practice my french listening and I ended up having several french conversations with people. I am not fully fluent in french, so it is always very fun and exciting when I get a chance to practice.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed presenting and would definitely return to WestCAST in the future if given the opportunity.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the opportunity to attend and present at WestCAST 2026 in Winnipeg, MB. The conference brought together student teachers from all across Canada to network and attend workshops and presentations. I delivered a presentation on the importance&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/03\/02\/weekly-reflection-5-5\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}