I'm Back from my Education Conference
Hi everyone!!! This is my first journal entry. Yes I've decided to go with the crowd and create my own online journal(-:I had a great weekend at the VA Education Association Conference. I carpooled over with the SVEA( Student VA Education Association) members from UVA. We had an awesome speaker for the opening on Friday night who walked around in the lobby before everyone entered the auditiorium, posed as a student wearing baggy clothes, hat, doo rag etc. He approached a few teachers, talking to them. Once everyone was settled in the auditiorium and he had been introduced, he began in his outfit walking from the back of the room with microphone and told of how he had just been in the lobby and how many people ignored him and avoided/broke eye contact with him. Everyone broke into laughter! He talked a lot about how we should allow every student "into our wheelbarrow" and why didn't any of the teachers come up to him. He did thank one person who asked him "if he was lost". He has his phD from William and Mary and told of how he poses as a college student on the first day of college at Hampton College. He talks with his students and eventually makes it onstage and strips down to a very professional suit and tie.He had some very good thoughts on how to approach including every child in the classroom.
I attended 3 sessions including: Across the Curriculum with Dr. Seuss and Fostering Literacy in the Preschool Classroom.They were so much fun and I can't wait for the time when I will teach preschoolers. After Friday night SVEA membersa nd I all returned to our Williamsburg Courtyard Marriott Hotel. The UVA SVEA and I decided to meet up to play "Catch Phrase" in one of the rooms. We were thinking about going to Paul's... it's a bar that allows everyone-apparently the Wiliamsburg nightlife for William & Mary students. Catch Phrase was so much fun.... i'm glad we decided against the bar we probably would have come back smelling like smoke anyway! So then around twelve we headed back to our rooms because we needed some sort of sleep for our long, but fun filled Saturday.
So I go back to my huge room with it's Queen size bed, sofa and water-with the "If the seal is broken- you can pay $1.50 to drink". My room has these beautiful curtains that hang across the wall which my bed faces and I discover that the wall is actually a huge window with a sliding glass door that leads outside to the beautiful moonlight courtyard that is encompassed by the hotel. It's so lonely and kinda scary being alone in the room and I don't really want to watch tv. I've never stayed a lone in a hotel before and the silence is jsut to awkward and mysterious....... SO I decide to listen to Dustin's tape....it is definitely comforting to hear a familiar voice...especially on that is nice to listen to. Soon his singing fills the silence of the room completely changing the atmoshphere. After listening to an array of stories told through his lyrics I am able to drift off to sleep, even if it's only for four hours. Thanks for being such a talented musician!!! (If that word can some up the waves of talent flowing to my ears from the cassette player.) The next morning I am up and getting ready to attend my exiting sessions preparing me for the wonderful world of teaching! Soon the day is over and I've returned to Lynchburg with my "Cat in the Hat" bobble pen door prize, my pictures of the Masquerade Ball,Oktoberfest and Ghost Hunt and I'm now heading off to sleep hopefully to regain those hours from the night before! I have an exciting day to look forward to including seeing Tintypes at Sweetbriar with my wonderful theatre friends- Rosalind,Dustin,Megan,and Morgan!!!!!
I attended 3 sessions including: Across the Curriculum with Dr. Seuss and Fostering Literacy in the Preschool Classroom.They were so much fun and I can't wait for the time when I will teach preschoolers. After Friday night SVEA membersa nd I all returned to our Williamsburg Courtyard Marriott Hotel. The UVA SVEA and I decided to meet up to play "Catch Phrase" in one of the rooms. We were thinking about going to Paul's... it's a bar that allows everyone-apparently the Wiliamsburg nightlife for William & Mary students. Catch Phrase was so much fun.... i'm glad we decided against the bar we probably would have come back smelling like smoke anyway! So then around twelve we headed back to our rooms because we needed some sort of sleep for our long, but fun filled Saturday.
So I go back to my huge room with it's Queen size bed, sofa and water-with the "If the seal is broken- you can pay $1.50 to drink". My room has these beautiful curtains that hang across the wall which my bed faces and I discover that the wall is actually a huge window with a sliding glass door that leads outside to the beautiful moonlight courtyard that is encompassed by the hotel. It's so lonely and kinda scary being alone in the room and I don't really want to watch tv. I've never stayed a lone in a hotel before and the silence is jsut to awkward and mysterious....... SO I decide to listen to Dustin's tape....it is definitely comforting to hear a familiar voice...especially on that is nice to listen to. Soon his singing fills the silence of the room completely changing the atmoshphere. After listening to an array of stories told through his lyrics I am able to drift off to sleep, even if it's only for four hours. Thanks for being such a talented musician!!! (If that word can some up the waves of talent flowing to my ears from the cassette player.) The next morning I am up and getting ready to attend my exiting sessions preparing me for the wonderful world of teaching! Soon the day is over and I've returned to Lynchburg with my "Cat in the Hat" bobble pen door prize, my pictures of the Masquerade Ball,Oktoberfest and Ghost Hunt and I'm now heading off to sleep hopefully to regain those hours from the night before! I have an exciting day to look forward to including seeing Tintypes at Sweetbriar with my wonderful theatre friends- Rosalind,Dustin,Megan,and Morgan!!!!!