Staff Development

This is probably incredibly boring to most of you, but this is our family journal and I want to record this.

Today was a district wide staff development day. And I presented a workshop for the first time. I did it with my kindergarten partner teacher. We had about 30 teachers from all over the district, all PreK-2nd grade teachers.

The name of our workshop was Stand Up For Learning. It was a collection of gross motor (moving) activities that we had either self-developed or gotten from books over the years. We had activities for all subjects areas that could easily be changed to fit your particular grade level or subject area.

I was REALLY nervous to get up in front of a group of teachers who ranged from novice to master. But everything went great. We got a lot of compliments and even had someone ask if we would like to present again because she had some co-workers who would really enjoy what we had. It was a good experience and it got me excited about developing more workshops to present in the future. I have also spent the last two years of my time in first grade writing a book of emergent literacy comprehension practices and I was thinking on my drive home about working on getting it published through Teacher Created Materials. We'll see.