MacDonald Integrated Education Support Services
MacDonald Integrated Educational Support Services aims to help students, parents, and teachers in their roles within education. We offer a variety of services for a number of needs related to teaching, learning, and education, including direct teaching/tutoring, integrated unit development, support for students with exceptionalities, and professional development.
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Our Services
Whether you are homeschooling or simply want to help your child build their skills, MIESS offers a variety of services for students/parents, designed to help students build their skills using content they are interested in.
We offer custom integrated unit design options for teachers using provincial curriculum, focusing on big ideas and competencies. Options may include multi-grade design, IEP goal integration, and more.
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Submit the short information form and we will contact you within 1-2 business days.
Meet our Facilitator
Hello! My name is Adam MacDonald and I have been studying and working in education for just shy of ten years. My experience includes teaching grades 2-12 in both Alberta and BC, but much of my focus has been on developing and implementing integrated and inclusive inquiry models in the intermediate and middle-school grades. I have been lucky enough to be able to work in multi-grade classrooms for the majority of my career, and have gained an increased understanding about how skills build on one another as students grow and learn. My work as a Learner Support Teacher, planning for students with exceptionalities, and my graduate studies in Special Education have helped me to also understand that no matter where a student is academically, socially, or emotionally, they can always learn and build their skills.
I believe that the best way to get students interested in learning is by including them in the decisions being made about their education. I feel it is important to give students increased agency as they develop into adults so that they know how to make decisions about their learning before their formal K-12 education ends. I also believe that learning should be integrated, as most tasks in life are not limited to one subject area.
I live in Sparwood, BC and have spent the majority of my life in the Elk Valley, save for a year on exchange in Germany, my time studying at the University of Lethbridge, and 5 years teaching and studying in the Interior of BC. I moved back home shortly before the pandemic started and have been closely watching the developments in education over the past year. Seeing both parents and teachers struggle without much support, I began to think about how I could use my experience and knowledge to help the situation — and thus MIESS was born.
For an example of my pedagogy in work, please watch the video below, which showcases a model of education I helped establish a few years ago. And, if you would like to contact me to set up a consultation, please fill out the form below the video.
Cheers,
Adam MacDonald
Founder/Facilitator MEISS
