The day began with all of the teachers gathered together in the cafeteria to hear Brad's keynote. In his keynote, Brad gives compelling reasons why teachers need to make changes to their

From there, everyone divided into groups to attend their breakouts which included my session, Louise's session, Brad's session and lesson-plan writing faciliated by the IB manager.
Those who stayed with Brad, explored the IB theme, Sharing The Planet as they learned about our beautiful planet’s limited resources and how easy it is to incorporate resources from DE Streaming! Brad showed them 50 ways to use DE Streaming!
While with Louise, participants explored the IB theme, How The World Works and the many



Each of us took a few minutes to introduce the Discovery Educator Network to our teachers and encourage the teachers to sign up. Since our district already uses DE Streaming, it makes perfect sense that those who are passionate about using technology in their classrooms would apply to be DEN Stars! Teachers are looking for support, staff development and resources and the DEN is the perfect place to get all that and more!
The day was scheduled tightly with 45-50 minutes for each session and we presented each session six times. The goal was for me and Louise, who were in the computer labs, to give the teachers an opportunity to explore hands-on, but it was a real challenge having the full 45 minutes each session (with everyone arriving on time, interruptions, etc.). Brad's session was not expected to be hands-on, but still 45 minutes is never enough time to reach everyone's level of experience and take them that one step farther. The three of us are so passionate about what we do and about sharing that we tend to get frustrated with the lack of time.
I think in many ways, the teachers probably felt like we were feeding them a sip of water through a fire hose. So, as I always do when presenting, I ask the teachers to invite me to their schools to present to their faculty or work with grade levels or some other creative way to reach their teachers for a larger block of time. I hope they'll take me up on it.
I can confidently say the Day of Discovery was a huge success. Everyone left with smiles on their faces and goodies in their arms. Thank you Brad, Louise and Discovery Education for making the day such a huge success! Thanks also to the principal of the school where we held the event (taking over a school building is quite a burden on a school site and the principal was most gracious), and also thank you to the 200 teachers who met us with open minds. The day was awesome!!
3 comments:
Sounds like you had an awesome day of discovery!
I wish I could have heard Brad's speech. I would have heard what he had to say to make such an impact. It sounds as the though the whole day was wonderful
Sounds like a very productive day! Thanks for sharing.
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