PSA Professional Development Day

October 19 was a Provincial Professional Development Day. On this particular pro-d day teachers are supposed to choose their specialty and go get updated in new theories and methods. Since I don't really have a specialty yet and I really enjoy social studies I chose to go to the social studies specialist conference. I went to three presentations.

1) How and why unions were created. How to teach about unions.

2) Homelessness and how to teach about it. This presentation was interesting because they had a homeless man and a formerly homeless woman speak about their experiences.

3) Keynote speaker: Romeo Dellaire. He is a very famous Canadian. He was in the army and refused to leave Rwanda when the World pulled out and let genocide happen. He was a very motivational and inspirational speaker about what is morally right and how we should influence our students to take care of the world.