Tamara Einarson

Year: 2010-2011 – Province: Manitoba

Certificate of Achievement Recipient

Riverton Collegiate
P.O. Box 749
Riverton, MB R0C 2R0

Principal: Thomas Kowalchuk
School Tel.: 204-378-5135
School Fax: 204-378-5201
School Email: rci@esd.mb.ca

Subjects and grades taught: Math for grades 9 to 12

Teaching approach

Techno-guru Tamara Einarson is your go-to teacher for anything related to online learning or ICT. Ms. Einarson is forever finding ways to use technology in her classroom and happily shares her findings with her fellow teachers. She communicates with her students through a wiki, and leads them in the creation of stop-motion animations to illustrate what she readily admits are “less than engaging” topics in math. Ms. Einarson has an uncanny ability to show students how different disciplines interact with each other and it’s not uncommon to find her partnering with the woodworking teacher or the geography teacher on various projects.

Outstanding achievements:

• Students are expected to maintain a learning portfolio that they develop over the course of their high school years. Ms. Einarson investigated ways to maintain this digital ar chive and worked with a colleague to create an easy-to-use portfolio template.
• One of the early adopters of laptops in the classroom, Ms. Einarson spearheaded an initiative to secure a laptop cart for the school, which makes laptops available for all the students in the class. Not only does she use the cart in her own class, but she oversees its use by other teachers.
• Ms. Einarson was part of a school contingent that travelled to remote northern communities from which Riverton Collegiate draws a number of students. As an ambassador for the school, she connected with potential students and established the groundwork for an easier transition from their home community.

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