Hello everyone!\u00a0 I first want to say that this past week at the Kenan Fellowship Summer Institute was one of the better experiences\u00a0in my professional life.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 There are many things I can\u00a0describe as the highlight of my week: the teambuilding\/educational rafting trip, the professional development, the introduction of new technologies for classroom use, etc.\u00a0 I have to say that meeting and forging relationships with so many passionate and dedicated educators trumps\u00a0all other experiences.\u00a0 It was a pleasure to meet and get to know every individual involved with the fellowship.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 This week provided an endless amount of opportunities to do this.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 The entire week was planned to encourage relationship building and collaboration.\u00a0 I was able to learn just as much from\u00a0my colleagues as I did\u00a0the engaging and authentic content workshops and guest speakers.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
One of the things I truly appreciated about this week was the variety of content-rich workshops and collaborations.\u00a0 As a K-5 Science Lab teacher, I work with\u00a0all\u00a0thirty\u00a0classrooms in elementary school once a week\u00a0and have found it more difficult at times to create the differentiated, hands-on, long-term engaging labs I had initially planned on conducting.\u00a0 This week provided me with multiple strategies and tools that would be beneficial in my unique situation.\u00a0 This is especially the case in how I organize and provide content for the older grade levels, including my Science Olympiad teams.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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