{"id":29,"date":"2016-07-11T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T15:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/?p=29"},"modified":"2016-07-11T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T15:07:14","slug":"fun-times-in-the-whee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/2016\/07\/11\/fun-times-in-the-whee\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Times in &#8220;The Whee&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard tons about NCCAT from other teachers, and all of it was positive. Other than the fact that I&#8217;m deathly afraid of driving in the mountains, I was really excited about going. Luckily, one of the Fellows from Durham was willing to drive (thanks Lena!).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#EdCampKenan was a definite win! It was so amazing to be able to gain professional development through dialogue with other current educators instead of the traditional lecture format.<\/li>\n<li>The Myers-Briggs presentation told me a lot about myself that I hadn&#8217;t quite thought about before. It was definitely an eye-opener as I think about my approaches to working with others. Also, it&#8217;s always great to know that I&#8217;d be Fred or George Weasley if I were a Harry Potter character.<\/li>\n<li>Whitewater rafting was&#8230;cold. Very cold. But it taught me that it is okay to let other people take charge on major projects for once. While I had never been rafting before, there were people in my boat that had been that could lead the charge for us. I also really stepped outside of my comfort zone when I decided to jump off of the troll bridge into the water.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Patio PD&#8221; was the most useful of all of the sessions, if that counts as a session. I&#8217;ve come to realize that the most valuable resource that you could ever have is the group of people that surround you during your development. I really enjoyed being able to reflect on each day&#8217;s PD sessions and be able to share experiences with other educators that I can learn from and take back to my classroom. This was especially beneficial because as one of the youngest Kenan Fellows this year, I was able to pick up so much knowledge from more experienced educators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Moving forward&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I learned tons of things that I could take back to my classroom. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s pretty unrealistic for me to try to implement all of these things in one year. What I&#8217;m most excited about is implementing more project-based learning in my classroom and trying to implement a semi-flipped classroom. Stay tuned for more details&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard tons about NCCAT from other teachers, and all of it was positive. Other than the fact that I&#8217;m deathly afraid of driving in the mountains, I was really excited about going. Luckily, one of the Fellows from Durham&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-tjones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}