What A Week!

Hello everyone!  I first want to say that this past week at the Kenan Fellowship Summer Institute was one of the better experiences in my professional life.  I had my expectations for the week coming in but didn’t think it was going to be as beneficial as it ended up being.  There are many things I can describe as the highlight of my week: the teambuilding/educational rafting trip, the professional development, the introduction of new technologies for classroom use, etc.  I have to say that meeting and forging relationships with so many passionate and dedicated educators trumps all other experiences.  It was a pleasure to meet and get to know every individual involved with the fellowship.  I believe the best professional development one can have involves open discussion with those that have the same passion for working with youth as you.  This week provided an endless amount of opportunities to do this.

Compared to other professional development in my career, the Summer Institute I believe will in the long-term be the most influential and memorable for me.  The entire week was planned to encourage relationship building and collaboration.  I was able to learn just as much from my colleagues as I did the engaging and authentic content workshops and guest speakers.  Being able to discuss past experiences, passions for teaching youth and teaching techniques was such a beneficial experience for me as a relatively new teacher.

One of the things I truly appreciated about this week was the variety of content-rich workshops and collaborations.  As a K-5 Science Lab teacher, I work with all thirty classrooms in elementary school once a week and have found it more difficult at times to create the differentiated, hands-on, long-term engaging labs I had initially planned on conducting.  This week provided me with multiple strategies and tools that would be beneficial in my unique situation.  This is especially the case in how I organize and provide content for the older grade levels, including my Science Olympiad teams.  I was introduced to online platforms and applications that I feel can be easily implemented in my unique classroom setting that will greatly assist me in how I organize and differentiate content to the different classes and grade levels each day.

13 thoughts on “What A Week!”

  1. Mi único problema es que en vez de escribir 5 artículos a la semana, escribes 10 si la tasa de rechazo es del 50. Tampoco ganarás 12 dólares, sino 18, y la mitad de eso. Puedo entender la tasa de rechazo del 50 si alguien no tiene experiencia, pero creo que si a un escritor experimentado le rechazan el 50 de su trabajo, ¿cómo se las arreglará alguien con menos experiencia?

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