Where Do You Go for Professional Development During the Summer?
By lisawbacon13@gmail.com on Sunday, 24 July 2022
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I am amazed to see the variety of Professional Development that teachers do in the summer. Can you share some of your favorites? SETSail Teacher STEM Training just finished up at the US Naval Academy. The teacher workshops start at Oshkosh next week. Civil Air Patrol is conducting ACE camps around the country for students. NASA Centers around the country conduct teacher trainings at their facilities on various aviation and space topics. Please share something that stimulated your thought process on something new to bring back to your classroom. Do you continue to network with teachers that you meet at these workshops during the year?
Tracy-

Thanks so much for your response. It is awesome that you have such a great community mentor. How did you find this person? Do you have suggestions for others on how to get started with something in their school? I'm hoping that we can capture these great programs as they surface for the resources page.
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Monday, 25 July 2022 10:13
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He actually found us! However, there are quite a few local rocketry (robotics/scouts)groups that have monthly meetings. Most of the members are retired and have the desire and time to help! Also, just communicating with your local industry partners. Most of those in the STEM industry have some sort of "Outreach/education/give back" goal. However, many do not know how to go about working with the schools. After the school or the company reaches out...it goes pretty smooth from there! They are a great resource and it is a win-win!
TracyThomas
2 years ago
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Hi there! I agree...there are more and more opportunities to get just what you need! However, sometimes the community/industry itself is an amazing way to get professional development. We work with a retired Air Force/mathematician/rocket mentor. We have a 6-8 magnet program that specializes in aerospace and technology. We have done a ton of activities where the students are teaching students...they turned out fantastic! So, we work with our community mentor every summer to vertically align in every possible way. We now have the grade above make the parts for the grade below and then teaching them how to build it instead of us! When students teach students it is a completely different project and means so much more!
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Sunday, 24 July 2022 19:17
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Tracy, thank you for sharing .I have had the honor of visiting your school and seeing your program in operation, it is an amazing program. For those who would like to learn more about your school I invite them to visit https://www.neisd.net/ksat
wifagan@wifagan.com
2 years ago
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Lisa , great info, thanks for sharing
wifagan@wifagan.com
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