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I was talking with the teacher who is head of innovation at the school and she was shocked that I was a first time, first year teacher based on my knowledge and confidence. She was blown away which made me realize I am where I am supposed to be at this moment in my life, which is teaching! This made my day!!!

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That the way I do things is really unique - I'm unexperienced and relatively uneducated (in teaching), but my approach has unique value that other schools can't offer.

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Met some great people who gave me great ideas and introduced me to new resources to use in my classroom!

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A hands on project about creating a new ride at Disney and using all the classes to create a part. For example: the english class wrote a narrative on the history of the ride, where the science class would come up with the design and testing to make sure it is safe, and so on. This way kids are creating a project based on all subjects seeing how they all apply to 1 project.

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Acquiring new language... hearing phrases to use with students.

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Though very well qualified, the teacher seemed to struggle with classroom management

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I teach coding and robotics to 7th and 8th but unfortunately I didn't get to speak with the robotics teacher.

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Kids were engaged and extremely interested inthelesso

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I visited a science teacher's class, and the teacher was FABULOUS!! I loved how he activated knowledge and had the kids engaged. With that being said, he showed a lot of videos on seatbelts (force and motion), and I wondered if I was too much. Some were real human videos and seemed intense for 8th graders.

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The first teacher I spoke with taught a very teacher centered grammar lesson and it made me think about a different way to teach the material. She was super nice and the kids knew the material but they weren't really engaged.

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The teacher showed a lot of videos about car crashes / dummies and used humor almost to the too extreme which could be offensive/

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Great use of space and equipment, created games that engaged all students, and were continually active.

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I saw Spanish classes this morning. They spoke most of the time in Spanish. Even though I didn't understand the language at all, but I got to see the structure of the lesson and how the teacher ran the class. I am impressed that how fluently the students can speak in Spanish.

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I saw Spanish classes this morning. They spoke most of the time in Spanish. Even though I didn't understand the language at all, but I got to see the structure of the lesson and how the teacher ran the class. I am impressed that how fluently the students can speak in Spanish.

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I acquired many activities I can apply to my classroom.
I was able to observe a game I can use to review.

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I thought the teacher spent FAR too much time lecturing. Basically did it for 40 minutes straight. Lost kids after first 15

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As much as I loved what they do, it made me proud of what we do at my school.

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I loved how much discussion the English teacher did in class, and that she asked questions more than she gave answers (Socratic method). I was impressed that all the students participated in both classes I saw.

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I loved how much discussion the English teacher did in class, and that she asked questions more than she gave answers (Socratic method). I was impressed that all the students participated in both classes I saw.

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The classrooms themselves were very small/tight spaces.

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Very short skirts on some girls

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I was relieved the seventh graders were as goofy as mine!

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SMH had some incredible resources in their robotics program and the teacher was very knowledgeable and inviting

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SMH had some incredible resources in their robotics program and the teacher was very knowledgeable and inviting

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Teacher had 4 cups on counter; students turned over appropriate cup depending on situation. Such as, gone to bathroom, gone to locker, etc. Only one cup allowed turned over at a time. Students didn't have to ask. Seemed to work well.

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Saw a kid refresh their webpage instead of click enter. Lost all their progress... :(

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I saw a science lesson and the teacher allowed a lot of discussion, which was good. But, the students kept have convos amongst themselves and prevented others from hearing directions, thus she had to repeat directions multiple times. Her attention getters (which I assume were school wide as I saw others do them) didn't work. I was wondering if the school does discipline referrals or if they were more PBIS.

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Flipped classrooms...great idea...I knew these were being used in colleges but not yet that this has seeped into secondary

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Flipped classrooms...great idea...I knew these were being used in colleges but not yet that this has seeped into secondary

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About my classes in new ways

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I loved talking with the instructional technologists about what and how they implement different platforms.

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I saw a discussion about fracking from 6th graders and I was impressed by the structure of the conversation and the

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SMH is such a beautiful school with a welcoming teaching staff and a hum among the students that exudes an excitement to learn. Mary Poarch's 6th grade science lesson

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The teacher has broken his grammar lessons into miniature, daily exercises... he projected a sentence onto the board and had the kids copy, dissect, and then imitate the sentence using specific grammar points. I would love to eventually have mini lessons with grammar as well rather than devoting half or an entire class period to grammar (Bc I hate grammar).

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I enjoyed speaking to the 6th grade math teachee

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They had some standup desks for Ss who chose them

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They had some standup desks for Ss who chose them

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St. Mary's

Class had clear breaks for time for the students to get up and move around, without getting off topic when they came back/ use the movement to help continue the lesson.

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Learning new format to create flipped classroom lessons.

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The second teacher I worked with today was amazing. I watched a grammar mini lesson, saw him begin a class discussion in a format I'd never seen before, and got a ton of great info about grading and planning. We're going to be email

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Good: loved seeing the organizational ideas in the classroom

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I loved learning how they run their technology department. From professional dev
elopment to organizing lesson plan.

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Kids made their own religious figurines that stood on their desks during class. I thought that was a great way to “personalize” religion concepts and discussion by having a figurine at their desk.

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Loved "circle discussions" in 6th grade geography -- student facilitated discussions

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Kids were amazingly and uniformly on task

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Saw the power of effective technology use in the classroom.

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Varied seating. Students being able to sit where they want but must

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Flipped classroom gave teacher more quality time with students while working trhough questions

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Co-teaching for PE: lead teacher for different weeks, department head was mindful in unit planning and who was a lead teacher depending the sport season l

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I enjoyed seeing and being able to ask about the flipped classroom model.

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I enjoyed seeing and being able to ask about the flipped classroom model.

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Great to get perspectives from other practitioners

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I loved seeing the 5th grade math teacher build upon prior knowledge and set her kids up for next year. She paced her lesson SO and purposefully selected and used everything in the class!!!

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Class was incredibly structured, which is something I don't typically do with my own classes. I'm not sure if this is good or bad, in either circumstance.

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I observed a group of students do a "fish bowl" discussion activity. The students facilitated the discussion which was very impressive!

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I saw a flipped (flip?) classroom and it was so fascinating--it gave me ideas to incorporate into some/all of my classes

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I LOVED experiencing

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Great advice from 40 year veteran. Each member of lab groups had job titles. The lab was performed seamlessly.

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Lesson had clear beginning, middle, and end.