Welcome!

Welcome to Ms. DeTerra’s Classroom Blog! 

For nine years, Ms. DeTerra was the District MACC Teacher at Suncrest Elementary in Burnaby. While still a member of Burnaby Schools, Ms. DeTerra has now moved to SFU to serve as a Faculty Associate working with student teachers. Even though she has changed positions, this blog will continue to host information from past years of MACC Suncrest. Look for new information to come as Ms. DeTerra continues to work with new students and teachers!

Ms. DeTerra has been teaching for 21 years in the General Vancouver area. She began as an IB Primary Years Programme Teacher and worked as an IB Consultant and Site Evaluator traveling to IB Schools across Canada and the USA. She has taught a variety of subjects including Elementary Education, Spanish, Theatre, English, and Gifted Education from K-12. In addition to the MACC Program, she also served as a member of Burnaby Schools’ Staff Development Team as an Advanced Learning Helper Teacher and taught Challenge Programs for gifted learners. Ms. DeTerra is passionate about inquiry and project-based learning, concept-based curriculum, arts integration, and helping all students approach their learning in healthy ways.

In  Ms. DeTerra’s class, you can often find us building and doing hands-on projects, asking great questions, learning about social thinking and social-emotional learning skills, using technology and the arts to show our understandings of curriculum, and just having fun!

Enjoy this gallery of some recent photos from Ms. DeTerra’s classes! We look forward to posting more soon!