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| Highland Elementary Teachers at Indian Creek Camp |
The setting of our teacher's in-service was beautiful. Indian Creek Camp is located in Liberty, Tennessee which is about an hour and a half drive from where I live. We stayed in cabins that had no wifi, tv, radio, etc. The rooms were not the Hilton but is was just what we needed. They fed us three wonderful vegetarian meals a day. Meetings were in session during the day and activities were scheduled at night. Since I had gotten sick three days before the meeting I didn't participate in any of the outings. My UOP Student Teaching Seminar class began while I was attending this in service so I had to drive 30 minutes to the nearest McDonalds so I could use their wifi.
INSIGHT
I was able to meet lots of other teachers across Tennessee that worked within the SDA KYTN Conference. We talked about everything. We discussed student retention, marketing, teaching techniques, class management nightmares and successes. One teacher told me how she fixed the issue of students leaving pencils, erasers, etc. on the floor. She hands out tickets to students who have a clean and tidy area and they can purchase things with it at the end of the month. I learned that every teacher has his or her own way of doing things, there is not much of a consensus on class management.
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