In college, I was in an awesome education program called UNC-BEST (Baccalaureate Education in Science & Teaching). This program is designed so that future teachers can have the time to get a BA or BS in the field of science they are interested in teaching and get a comprehensive science high school teaching license. The program is small and close knit. We had seminars on educational best practices every semester in addition to our core education classes. The quality of classroom observations and follow up discussions helped me grow as a pre-service teacher. Jennifer Coble, who developed the program, runs an alumni retreat every summer which somehow I always miss... And, I almost missed it this summer because I decided I wanted to sleep for my last few days of summer. However, Friday morning, I got a call from Jennifer saying, "You should come, it will be refreshing," followed by a tweet from a fellow alumni saying "Sleep when you are dead"... So, I went, and I am SO GLAD I did. We are all science and math teachers, mostly high school. This made everything very transferrable. I got to catch up with old friends, to hear how to effectively do flipped class for science, and to troubleshoot different classroom difficulties. Highlights for me were Dayson Pasion's session on gamification (check out @MrDpasion and #levelupedchat) and Jennifer Coble's session on teaching and mindfulness. I think I actually for real understand gamification now. And, the mindfulness talk might lead to some summer research next summer which would be BEYOND AMAZING! I left the conference feeling refreshed, reconnected, and a little (aka A LOT) neurotic about the school year (I basically start Monday...). But the reconnected and refreshed part override the scared part, and I have all these ideas for mindfulness in teaching! WOOT!
Sunday, July 27, 2014
UNC BEST Alumni Retreat - Storified!
Happy Almost End of Summer!!!!!!
In college, I was in an awesome education program called UNC-BEST (Baccalaureate Education in Science & Teaching). This program is designed so that future teachers can have the time to get a BA or BS in the field of science they are interested in teaching and get a comprehensive science high school teaching license. The program is small and close knit. We had seminars on educational best practices every semester in addition to our core education classes. The quality of classroom observations and follow up discussions helped me grow as a pre-service teacher. Jennifer Coble, who developed the program, runs an alumni retreat every summer which somehow I always miss... And, I almost missed it this summer because I decided I wanted to sleep for my last few days of summer. However, Friday morning, I got a call from Jennifer saying, "You should come, it will be refreshing," followed by a tweet from a fellow alumni saying "Sleep when you are dead"... So, I went, and I am SO GLAD I did. We are all science and math teachers, mostly high school. This made everything very transferrable. I got to catch up with old friends, to hear how to effectively do flipped class for science, and to troubleshoot different classroom difficulties. Highlights for me were Dayson Pasion's session on gamification (check out @MrDpasion and #levelupedchat) and Jennifer Coble's session on teaching and mindfulness. I think I actually for real understand gamification now. And, the mindfulness talk might lead to some summer research next summer which would be BEYOND AMAZING! I left the conference feeling refreshed, reconnected, and a little (aka A LOT) neurotic about the school year (I basically start Monday...). But the reconnected and refreshed part override the scared part, and I have all these ideas for mindfulness in teaching! WOOT!
In college, I was in an awesome education program called UNC-BEST (Baccalaureate Education in Science & Teaching). This program is designed so that future teachers can have the time to get a BA or BS in the field of science they are interested in teaching and get a comprehensive science high school teaching license. The program is small and close knit. We had seminars on educational best practices every semester in addition to our core education classes. The quality of classroom observations and follow up discussions helped me grow as a pre-service teacher. Jennifer Coble, who developed the program, runs an alumni retreat every summer which somehow I always miss... And, I almost missed it this summer because I decided I wanted to sleep for my last few days of summer. However, Friday morning, I got a call from Jennifer saying, "You should come, it will be refreshing," followed by a tweet from a fellow alumni saying "Sleep when you are dead"... So, I went, and I am SO GLAD I did. We are all science and math teachers, mostly high school. This made everything very transferrable. I got to catch up with old friends, to hear how to effectively do flipped class for science, and to troubleshoot different classroom difficulties. Highlights for me were Dayson Pasion's session on gamification (check out @MrDpasion and #levelupedchat) and Jennifer Coble's session on teaching and mindfulness. I think I actually for real understand gamification now. And, the mindfulness talk might lead to some summer research next summer which would be BEYOND AMAZING! I left the conference feeling refreshed, reconnected, and a little (aka A LOT) neurotic about the school year (I basically start Monday...). But the reconnected and refreshed part override the scared part, and I have all these ideas for mindfulness in teaching! WOOT!
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