Saturday, December 1, 2012
Scoop.it!
I learned a new online tool today - Scoop.it! My former colleague Robin in Concord has all these wonderful tools which she is always ready to share. This particular one is very helpful for me as part of my role is to inform teachers with new research and to integrate new ideas and tools. Click on the top tap under Scoop.it! Feel free to help me make it better.
Life as an immersion coordinator
A group of wonderful undergraduate students from Carleton College visited the immersion program on Thursday. During our conversation, a student asked me to share what the life of an immersion coordinator is like. I thought it was such a retrospective question and decided to revamp this blog. I wanted to use this as a link to share pieces of my life in my current adventure with you all.
This past Tuesday, I attended a workshop organized the Edgerton Center at MIT. The goal of this one day workshop was to meet young and inspiring scientists and to bring them to the classroom to "Tell Your Story" to the students. The 20 or so scientists all came with interesting stories and experiences to share. I was hoping to meet other teachers from Cambridge, instead, I met teachers from the greater Boston areas, including Mattapan, Belmont, and Canton were excited to expand the students' learning outside of the classrooms. My goals for joining the workshop? I wanted to explore wider collaboration opportunities in the area and to connect them with the teachers and the students. I look forward to the exciting possibilities of having the kids skyping a n astronomist who will be in the South Pole in December/January. As well to have a PhD students in math to talk about the cool things kids can connect to. And to bring the students out to the Harvard Brain Research Lab to look at how scientists work.
Tuesday night, I attended a parent gathering in the other dual-language school. The principal in that school wanted to receive parental inputs on the hiring of the soon-to-vacate Assistant Principal Position.
Back in school Wednesday morning, another prospective candidate for the immersion English position held a demo lesson in class. The final decision is made by the principal, and hopefully my input helps.
This past Tuesday, I attended a workshop organized the Edgerton Center at MIT. The goal of this one day workshop was to meet young and inspiring scientists and to bring them to the classroom to "Tell Your Story" to the students. The 20 or so scientists all came with interesting stories and experiences to share. I was hoping to meet other teachers from Cambridge, instead, I met teachers from the greater Boston areas, including Mattapan, Belmont, and Canton were excited to expand the students' learning outside of the classrooms. My goals for joining the workshop? I wanted to explore wider collaboration opportunities in the area and to connect them with the teachers and the students. I look forward to the exciting possibilities of having the kids skyping a n astronomist who will be in the South Pole in December/January. As well to have a PhD students in math to talk about the cool things kids can connect to. And to bring the students out to the Harvard Brain Research Lab to look at how scientists work.
Tuesday night, I attended a parent gathering in the other dual-language school. The principal in that school wanted to receive parental inputs on the hiring of the soon-to-vacate Assistant Principal Position.
Back in school Wednesday morning, another prospective candidate for the immersion English position held a demo lesson in class. The final decision is made by the principal, and hopefully my input helps.
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