It's over before you know it

August 13, 2012

It's Over Before You Know it

Today we did some great interactive activities to learn about the levels of enquiry, learning styles, gradual release of responsibility, and the constructivist model. There was great discussion and the Belizean teachers seemed to really buy in to the idea that children learn by doing.

At lunch we were informed that the workshops would end tomorrow. I still had three days planned and now I only had a morning. It felt horrible to announce that we would be ending early and that I could not deliver on my promise to provide workshops on all of the topics they felt they needed.
Chris and Maria did a fantastic workshop on Long Term Lesson planning. The group stayed in and worked on unit plans until well after 4:00PM.
Tomorrow we will do a morning session on Assessment and another on daily lesson planning. After that, they will need the afternoon to plan their workshops. Patrick offered to do a workshop on cross curricular planning using story books. Everyone in the group agreed to stay. They so badly want every opportunity to learn!

GW