Well, this post is for my friend Amanda, who said I should blog more than once a month and blog about the ed conference. Every year the kids get a week off in October because teachers all around the BSSD (Bering Strait School District) come to Unalakleet for a 4 day conference. The funnest part of the conference is sleeping on classroom floors with air mattresses and taking showers with my collegues, along with luke warm or sometimes cold water. Hmmmm....high school all over again!
This year I presented my first time with Heather. We presented what we learned from our Bridges in Mathematics workshop this summer. Heather did most of the presenting because she also went to a 5 day Math workshop the year before. I learned a ton from her! At the end of each day, I got to meet with Kindergarten teachers to share Bridges lessons and good questioning techniques. I was a little nervous but so excited to be sharing the new curriculum that lets students come to their own understanding.
All the participants, including myself, worked through problem solving together, learned new theory on Math. It was fun and challenging to do problems with others. First, I enjoyed seeing how others figured out problems and challlenging because I did not like problem solving in the past because I never thought I was good. But I'm learning that I am and everyone is a mathematician because we solve problems in our own way that makes sense to us and the power of working with others to grow as a math learner was neat also. What great concepts and ideas to apply to the classroom.
It was also fun to see friends: Amanda, Becky, other old co-workers, families I got to know in Unalakleet, etc. It was nice to spend time with co-workers. One of my favorite things to do was to visit the coffee shop every day to get a Macky Mocha with English Toffee! Yummy Yum Yum. They had a cute little puppy boxer.
Overall, it was one of the best ed conferences I've been too! I also took one hour sessions on learning about a new curriculum the district purchased for Unsafe and Safe touches. I'm excited to use it 2nd Semester, after I start and finish the crisis prevention curriculum I got last year. I also went to a session about how to communicate with parents about student's pacing with the standards and levels we teach. What a perfect time because parent-teacher conferences are coming up.
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