We often think of using roles and routines in our classrooms as ways to guide group work. These systems can also serve as ways to foster relationships and deepen learning both for students and for staff. Come ready to share your practice and learn from others.
Learning Goals
Learn and discuss ways in which roles and routines impact staff and student relationships.
Collaborate and develop next steps in your teaching practice.
Being a public school educator in these modern times requires finding joy and delight in a busy environment in order to sustain the committment to a very important profession. Tuyet Cullen has been teaching for 20 years through many ups and downs. She finds immense joy in being a teacher along with stress and frustration. Staying balanced with two very different experiences takes mindful practice. At this workshop, Tuyet will share her journey from starting as a newbie in 2004 to incorporating her mindfulness practice into her pedagogy and classroom management.
Learning Goals
Cultivate a mindfulness practice to stay present and focused as a public school educator.
Cultivate a commitment to finding the joy in work with students.
Tuyet Cullen has been a public school teacher since 2004. Teaching is her vocation and she is drawn to the delight that comes from learning with and about middle schoolers. She is committed to using mindfulness to support students in their learning journey and to support her stamina... Read More →
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT Room 326702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706
As educators we cannot peer inside our students’ heads to see what they are thinking and learning. It turns out that students’ gestures -- their spontaneous hand and arm movements made while talking and thinking -- provide remarkably useful information. In this session I share what is known about the relation of students’ gestures to their thinking and learning, and show ways that teachers can improve their formative assessment and instructional practices by “hearing” students’ gestures.
