I left Sunday afternoon to travel to Philadelphia with my coworkers Joy and Amy to attend the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) annual conference. What an awesome few days of professional development and taking in the sights and sounds of a great city too. I will share out some of the resources, but I don't want to break the internet by posting all of them on this blog. I did tweet out every session I went to. Another resource would be to search the hashtag #AMLE2017.
The sessions I focused on related to project based learning in math (shocker), middle school transitions, and supporting active learners. I'm really needing to introduce brain breaks more during class and I'm now using the site http://www.motivatingthemiddle.org/ to do so. As the presenter said (and she was awesome) "if the butt goes numb, the brain goes dumb". Yesterday we did an activity called "Egg, chicken, cow, human" and the kids loved it!
One of my favorite graphics from the project based strands is below:
I also really enjoyed the Tarrant Presentation about the intersection of project based learning & proficiency based learning. Their whole presentation can be found here.
Joy, Amy and I also took some time to explore Philadelphia. What a great an interesting city! We posted as many pictures as we could to the Sterling Instagram account to keep the kids in the loop as much as possible while we were gone.
The students did an amazing job working for the 3 days I was out. I had kids emailing me pictures of their work daily, and spent a lot time checking in and answer questions via email as well. It's been great to read their blogs this week and see how much learning took place.
Next week 6th graders will begin presenting their dance planning projects to the other teachers on the team while also beginning the early work of designing their new dream rooms. 5th graders will be wrapping up our decimal and place value unit by doing some shopping.
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