Overall I very much enjoyed the Promising Practices Conference. I thought it was awesome that our class as a whole were the only ones sitting all together. I am really happy how close we have all become over the last few months.
The first workshop I went to was called "The 6-16 Continuum and the Programs that Make it Work." There was only Nate, my friend Courtney, myself and a few others who went to this one. There were about 6 speakers who talked about different types of programs on campus open to high school students to prep for whats to come in their educational future. I wasn't very interested in this because it didn't really apply to me considering I'm already in college.
The second workshop I went to was called "Using Open-ended Science/Art Activities to Build Confidence and Competence." The speaker was Bonnie Epstein, and I thought she was fantastic. I wanted to take this one because of the fact that I always had a hard time as a young student to think as science as something "fun", so I thought it would be good to learn some different strategies I might want to use in my classroom some day. She gave me some great games and other types of projects I will definitely keep in mind when I become a teacher myself.
