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My cohort experience was kind of a roller coaster,
it had ups and downs but the support we got from each others and from the team were greatly appreciated and very helpful.
what started as a big question mark shaped up to become an action plan, full of great ideas and positivity and hope to go beyond.
after every F2F i felt that the ideas kept coming, it was a mixture of joy,creativity and wanting to keep on learning.
twitter chats were great , missed few but i was able to read the feedback.
Thanks for a great experience and will hope to be back in a couple of years,it’s a great refresher and somehow it’s a teacher update course.
Hi @csarkis ! So nice to see you blogging and reflecting on your experience. I unfortunately won’t be at the F2F tomorrow, but I’m hoping you’ll continue blogging or sharing your work on Twitter so I can see the updates! I loved your HMW question this year, as I am always wondering how to include more inquiry in my program. I tend to focus on the development of the language skills instead of the thinking skills (that are naturally more involved in inquiry activities). I completely identified with your point on the “Where will you go next?” slide about parents not understanding this shift in FSL pedagogy. It is really tricky as a French teacher to explain to parents why I’m not sending home verb conjugations for homework! Keep up the reflection and iterations on your action plan, and have fun at the F2F tomorrow.
Thank you for sharing your innovative approach to language learning. I know somtimes paretns can be reluctant to new strategies that they may have not seen before but your reseliency is going to pay off.
Resilience can be trained almost the same way the muscles are trained: you give your brain some stimulus at the right time and at the right places and thus progressively build up the brain’s strength.
Looking forward to seeing you again tomorrow at our final F2F.