Today we had facilitator training for the Constructivist Conference here at St. Lawrence University. It was a long but fascinating day. The constructivist conference is a unique conference unlike any I had previously experienced. Teams (of mostly educators) attend the conference with a specific task in mind. (For examples of the tasks click here.) The conference provides facilitators to facilitate the teams in clarifying and completing their task. It is based on constructivist learning theory and there is a specific philosophy and method in facilitating the process. This year 30 teams are coming from across North America. I have been attending the conference for nearly ten years and find it a fascinating and richly rewarding experience. I’ll be blogging from here as time permits. Today I led an ice breaker for the facilitators and took part in a number of fun discussions about creating a rubric to assess the conference's effectiveness. Tomorrow my team arrives. Their task is to create a webpage for teachers and parents to have access to materials, ideas, forms, and information about RTI and AIS.
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