Instead of our regular class this week we attended ED Camp. ED camp was a gathering that comprised of educators from different schools who all lead different roles, to discuss various education based topics that we as a group had chosen a few days before. As this was online through zoom rather then in person we had. series of breakout rooms with each breakout room a different topic. We were free to enter and leave breakout rooms as we saw fit so we were bale to experience different conversations on different topics and gain a lot of information.

The breakout room I spent the most time in was “Surviving Your First Practicum” it was super helpful to hear stories of teachers experiences when they were just starting out, being reassured that it’s ok to mess up you just need to correct yourself and own it. It was also helpful as it gave us lots of different activities we could incorporate into our future teaching, things like ice breaker games or telling us how best to connect with students while still maintaining authority over the class. They helped us figure out what to do in certain situations and that it was ok to seek help from other teachers or faculty.