From Green Blazers To Blue Corduroys

How Professional Development leads to the Three Circle Model This spring I attended both Professional Development opportunities at ACES and SLLC.  I enjoyed all of the opportunities both gave but I am going to focus this blog on the ACES Professional Development because of something really cool that happened as well. At ACES we got to hear from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation where we learned about ways to teach Watersheds to students.  I enjoyed all the different activities because one of the topics I haven't taught while student teaching is Natural Resources and so getting some cool ways to talk about water was super useful. I especially liked how some of the activities were using different tools which made me sit there and think how some of these tools cost more than others but still led to the same results. It made me realize how there isn't one way to teach a lesson.  I hope that during the summer I'll have a chance to change up some of my lessons to see what ways...

The Journey of Student Teaching: Day 20 FFA Advisor Reflections: When a Weekend of High School Girl's Theme Songs Helped Give me the Confidence to teach in Seven Classrooms Essential Question for this week: What is something you learned while attending an ACES weekend? My experience in ACES May have been a bunch of years ago, or how it feels as I write this blog but to me the big thing is the impact it has had on me as a teacher. For one I was use to seeing students only in the classroom. For example I have about four students in more than one class. But now I had the opportunity of being in charge of ... 40 students at ACES. That’s right - a whole lot of students. The best part about the trip wasn’t the number of students it was getting to see the students interact with each other like I’d hope. I saw that these kids though there were not a lot of students they got a long and had fun. I found myself laughing at how silly they would act together, or maybe those ...