"If you try to do something new and it expect it to go right, you have mental problems."-Alice Keeler Twitter has become one of my favorite places to improve my teaching practice. I follow a ton of gurus who have amazing skills, tricks, and tips. Several times a week I scroll through my tweets to see what is new in the world of education and what other amazing teachers are doing to engage their learners. Thus, I added "Take a professional development from one of the people I follow on Twitter" to my life list. There were several people I was considering--the amazing George Couros (@gcouros), Neil DeGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson), Alice Keeler (@alicekeeler), Lisa Bejarano (@lisabej_manitou) and Aubrey Yeh (@Ms_A_Yeh) were some of my choices. Then, the opportunity to spend Saturday with Alice Keeler feel into my lap thanks to our school's partnership with Mindspark Learning and I couldn't so no.
This was a FAST paced training that made my laugh so hard I nearly peed my pants at once point close to morning break. The mom of 5 and a math teacher, Alice has spent years learning to use Google Classroom to help students learn in the most efficient way possible. Within the first hour of the training, I had learned several new tools (Quizziz was my favorite) and I was already figuring out how to fix problems I had been fighting for years. My favorite take away from the day was that we need to work smarter, not harder. When making instructional decisions, we need to ask what will help students learn and make it top priority. By the end of the day, I had a new lesson set to use in my classroom on Monday and a plan for my next unit to try badging and gasification. It filled my bucket and energized me to get to be a learner for the day! I am SO glad I put this item on my list--It may just have to go back on it for another round.
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AuthorAlmost 40 and tired of the treadmill, I am going to LIVE each day as a new adventure while finishing todo items on my life list. Mom, wife, teacher, geek! Archives
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