Friday was my first professional development day with SD84. Another teacher and I travelled by FLOAT PLANE to Gold River to attend. I could write an entire post on how awesome the float plane was...and I think I will!
Anyway, the morning focus for Pro-D was on personal wellness. We attended a workshop on how to look after our own health during the school year, with a focus on different strategies of how to manage our stress. The presenter was Nelda Adamus, a health and wellness consultant. She discussed ways for us to understand things that make us stressed and how we can be pro-active in combatting what we already know will cause us problems. There were 5 ideas that I took away for myself:
1. Try to take a couple minutes to meditate every day
2. Say something that I am grateful for every day
3. Play and laugh at work more
4. Move and stretch at work more
5. Work at letting go of the things I cannot change
This was a great session. Very motivational!
For the afternoon Pro-D I went to a collaboration session on technology in the classroom. A collaboration session is basically an opportunity for teachers from different schools to get together and ask questions and talk about what is working ...in this case, with regards to technology. It was nice to see that the other teachers from my school had also chose this afternoon session! Apparently we are all on the same page for what we want to learn about! There were a few people from Gold River in the session as well. I now have a whole list of apps and smart board ideas that I want to try out! Technology is so exciting!
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