This ranks pretty high up on some of the professional development events I've been able to attend. Thanks Kelly for the invite to Douron for movie night! The film "Most Likely to Succeed" was so inspiring. I think I watched the first several minutes of it with my jaw resting on the table - I was so impressed by the high level of engagement in the film. Their cross curriculum strategies were creative, and effective. More info here: http://www.mltsfilm.org. David Stubbs presented and led a round table discussion following the film. As a teacher, it was interesting for me to hear so many unique perspectives on school and classroom structure from architects, purchasers, designers, etc. I felt incredibly honored to be a teacher at that table, and sort of get an idea of how many integral cogs there really are in designing and building an educational facility. I do hope they continue to include teachers in these discussions as we are "out in the trenches" so-to-speak, and try our best to advocate for our students. An added bonus, while on site at Douron's Owings Mills location, I had a "goldilocks" experience getting to try out a lot of their neat products! I could see my students enjoying many of these designs in a learning commons, and a classroom.
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I found a great video that talks about Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. I told them to move their seat to where they were comfortable and could hear the audio. Desks got moved out of the way a little, and the green benches dragged in front. They were so absorbed in the video, they didn't see me snap the photo! :-) |
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