Saturday’s workshop was in our backyard.
Well… not literally; we still were up at dawn to drive the 51 miles to the Orange County Department of Education. Our first relatively local Classroom Chef workshop was full of motivated and interesting teachers.
UCI MAT teachers attending @classroomchef @gomezb90 @terec3 @MrFrew_edu @MrsKayMO @sunagakari @jody_guarino pic.twitter.com/AVBCJYYL8R
— Haejin Park (@HaejinPark17) April 22, 2017
And about eight brand new student or first-year teachers, which was a giddy, exciting experience. We chatted the whole drive home about them.
John: Can you imagine how much different our first years would have been if somebody had shown us examples of different instruction? All the free stuff we shared with them that didn’t exist when we started?
Matt: Ugh, yes. There would have been way less notes and way more smiling.
John: I wonder if any BTSA providers would be interested in contacting us.
Matt: Oooo, yeah!
All attendees left with a copy of the book, and several shared their Dessert with us; pointing out what they’d learned and sharing it in a way that was comfortable to them:
@classroomchef Taking away the stigma of getting your work erased from the board by building on it rather than erasing it.
— Jane Noh (@missnohmath) April 22, 2017
And we got to end the day with some brainstorming/snowballing with Omar of OCDE!
Met up with @doctorstem on Saturday at @OCDeptofEd! Happy to make real-life/Twitter contacts! pic.twitter.com/Bum96ezt6R
— Classroom Chef (@classroomchef) April 24, 2017
Thanks, Orange County chefs, for a great day!
~Matt and John