KORCOS

KORCOS (March 12, 2010)
What a wonderful professional development and networking opportunity. We arrived at Seoul Foreign School right before 8 a.m. and assembled in the auxiliary gym to be welcomed by the chairperson of KORUS and be briefed on the day’s activities. First seminar of the day was a Kindergarten Job Alike headed by a teacher that’s new to teaching Kindergarten. She was seeking advice and experiences from others on how to be a more efficient classroom teacher. At the end of the session, I think that she had enough ideas and examples to help guide her through this year and to be much more prepared for next year. There were six teachers from my school in that session and we ended up leading the discussion. It was apparent that we have one of the top Kindergarten programs in the country. At the end of the session, Dustin and I were asked to apply for schools in the DODEA program.

We went to many cool sessions throughout the day, but the best was the book making seminar. There were tons of ideas of how to make books and get children interested in writing. I went to the second seminar with the guest speaker Dr. Jamie McKenzie. He was out of gas during the second seminar, but I did buy his book so that I could get a better understanding of what he was speaking about. He basically said that educators have to teach their students to think critically and to be responsible for questioning ideas and not being a “cut and paste” student. Good ideas there! At the end I went to a Zuumba workout with some of the other teachers at my school and it was amazing! I had never heard of it before, but I was hooked. It’s a Latin, hip hop still dance class. The instructor was very good! The event was a success and Dustin walked away with 3 of the raffled prizes. What a good day!! Until next time….be good to yourself and each other!!