"Teachers sharing with teachers"
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With the students out for the summer, teachers around the region are now teaching each other. On June 24, Region 3 science teachers convened at Edna High School for workshops that focus on gaining knowledge from one another.
Region 3 secondary science specialist Sheryl Roehl helped organize the event.
“At the service center, we really wanted to reach out and do something special for teachers, and I volunteered for science to be first,” she said.
The idea is that teachers collectively have a wealth of knowledge, tips, tricks of the trade, and fun, interactive projects that other teachers, and their classes could benefit from.
Teachers learned about robotics, dissected squid, and learned to incorporate kinesthetic and interactive activities into their lessons.
“We want children doing science,” said Roehl, “not just hearing it, seeing it, reading about it. In every session there are things that have the children be engaged, and doing something.”
Planning a get-together of this magnitude was no small task, and Roehl expressed deep gratitude to Edna ISD for Volunteering their facilities.
“It’s a huge thing because I’ve got maybe 16 sessions going on at any given time, so to have overhead projectors, rooms that are close enough to get to in the 10 minute break period, we had to have a school. They were very, very gracious, and very generous.”
The conference is the first of its kind for Region 3, but Roehl hopes it will become an annual event, because teachers have so much knowledge to share with one another, about what works, what doesn’t work, and what keeps students interested.
Roehl is the project director of the science collaborative, the Region 3 science club, which meets year round, and involved teachers get 100 hours of professional development as well as input from other teachers on how to best educate students and keep them interested. The teachers involved with the collaborative became the core group of presenters at the Region 3 event.
“They share with each other so they get tons of information from each other,” said Roehl, “And we felt this would be a good way for them to be able to share the things they know with other teachers. They’re teachers sharing with teachers. They’re sharing the best of what they do with their kids so other teachers will have those resources.”
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