Wednesday, February 16, 2011

February SMART Professional Development

WOW!  It's always amazing how after we have these PD days I always leave with so much more knowledge because of the collaboration we are doing!  Today, I just created an avatar and added it to my blog!  So cool!  It is nice to meet with colleagues and finding what works for them and how to make it work for my classroom too!

My SMART journey is going well.  Now that I am feeling comfortable with teaching Grade 8, I am beginning to develop cool SMART lessons.  My goal was to create SMART lessons in the areas of Science and Language Arts.  I have found that I've created some but not as many as I would like so I will continue to work on this as a goal.  I have found the SMARTBoard very useful in Core French because by Grade 8, let's face it, French is not that enjoyable.  By making Core French more interactive, the students tend to forget that they are still learning the vocabulary. 

Again, I must stress how important it is to have these days for PD!

No comments:

Post a Comment