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MSTA Convention and Workshops

11/8/2018

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I have long been a member of the Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) and have served in various officer roles for the local Joplin Teachers Association, holding the office of president on two occasions.  MSTA is our state alternative to NEA.  It is the oldest teaching association in the United States and is the largest teaching association in Missouri.
This week is the MSTA convention in Columbia, Missouri.  I have attended many times in the past, but this is the first in which I will not serve as a voting representative of Joplin teachers.  I will still represent Joplin, however, as I focus strictly on the professional development portion of the convention.  This will be the second year I have presented professional development workshops to teachers from across the state who are interested in gleaning something - anything - practical to use when they return to their own classes.

Last year, I developed a workshop appropriately titled, Stop Not Reinventing the Wheel, in which I share methods of using media to stimulate and enhance student engagement.  I presented the same material to our own teachers in Joplin, this summer.  The workshop was quite well-received in both locations, so I proposed to bring it back to the state convention, for 2018.

I will also present Give and Take, a workshop I first delivered at the Summer Institute in Joplin, last summer.  In this presentation, I introduce teachers to some improv/theater games that emphasize the importance of focus and respect for students.

​Both workshops are described in convention materials as such:

Stop Not Reinventing the Wheel
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​Last year’s presentation is back. It may not be a music, art, or performance class….but if music soothes the savage beast, and if a picture is worth a thousand words, why aren’t you using visual images, moving pictures, and music to teach? From Air Supply to ZZ Top, from Beethoven to Coldplay, we’re using music in different ways — for ambience, focus, reading, writing, and celebration. From sketches to Youtube videos, we’re using art to teach comprehension, enhance reading fluency, to inspire writing. From beginning to end, this session from a 29-year veteran classroom teacher is chockablock with ideas to add color and rhythm to your classroom.
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Give and Take
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Do you need your students to show more respect and consideration to each other? Are you looking for ways to get more eye contact/tracking from your students? Is it possible to explicitly teach manners and core behaviors in ways your students will understand and love? Beginning with simple improv/theater games, this session from a 29-year master teacher will give you practical ways to develop your classes into taking and giving attention with their peers in turn. They’ll soon yield the floor and build on the comments of their peers naturally. Apply these techniques, and you’ll soon discover new ways to achieve a culture of positive relationships in your classroom.
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These will be presented back-to-back, this afternoon.

Additionally, I will attend some workshops on my own, early tomorrow morning (if I can drag my keister our bed that early).  I am interested in seeing how Eric Langhorst, a teacher in Liberty, Missouri, uses 3D printers and other technology in his history classroom, and I may check out another presentation about technology tools.  Dr. Langhorst is the person who first alerted me to the opportunities available at Mount Vernon.

The keynote speaker at 10:30 will wrap up the convention for me.  John Antonetti will present Rigor Is Not a Four-Letter Word in the general session, described as follows:
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John Antonetti
As he works with schools around the country, John Antonetti is often asked to help teachers plan rigorous instruction. Sadly, we often confuse rigor with difficult, tedious, lengthy or hard. Webster’s Dictionary actually defines rigor as “a condition that makes life difficult, challenging or uncomfortable.” What student would want that? John will help us discover that rigor is not a single entity, but rather a product of three important design facets: personalized thinking...captured by each unique learner...in tasks of engagement. In other words, my thought that comes from the waymy brain works to make sense of this problem. (Shhh! Don’t tell anybody it’s rigor---just thinking, logic and laughter.)
I'm hoping to skim some cream off the top of Antonetti's presentation to enhance my own learning and teaching styles back home.
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