I went this weekend to Palm Springs for the California Association for the Gifted conference. It was very informative on many aspects. Its nice to be in a place where the general swing of things tends to go my way... towards creativity in teaching (instead of the cookie cutter robots that seems to be the current trend).
Also, I went to a highly reccomended conference on "Parenting the Gifted Child." The speaker was awesome and I walked away with so many ideas to pass along to parents of my students, as well as ideas of my own for when I have kids some day.
In addition, the confrence was very enlightening on a personal level. Some of us shared stories of when we had grown up, teachers and experiences we had, how we saw ourselves as learners and how teachers saw us as learners... it was very thought provoking.
At the end, Grant and I did the Palm Springs Ariel Tram, which was really cool. (I had never been to Palm Springs before!) We got home around 7:30 and I was falling asleep by 8:30, I was SOOOO tired! One of those weekends where you sit around alot and absorb a lot of information.
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