Teacher Development

This week in Digcit we participated in a teacher development. Normally the teachers of a department come into a room and they listen to another admin or teacher tell them new things to incorporate in there class room.

This week, instead of a teacher telling them what to use. We did. We though of fun and interactive ways we could use our ipads in class. We used different apps and websites and platforms on the ipads to accomplish this. It was a really cool experience to be able to teach the teachers. It was like our roles flipped for a few hours. It was also funny to see that the teachers acted the way students normally act in a class room. They were talking and messing around on their ipads, and sometimes it was actually really hard to get their attention. I guess we now know how it feels to be a teacher.

We introduced them to a lot of different tools and hopefully they will be incorporated in the classroom. The theme that we came up with was collaboration. We decided that we wanted more ways to collaborate with other students in and outside of the class room. It was really interesting to hear the ideas that we came up with during our planning. 

Now it wasn't all just teaching. The day was a half day so instead of going home we just stayed after school and waited for it to start. It was a great time because our teacher bought us pizza and soda and a few of us went to cookout and it was just a fun experience before and after the event.