We made name tents, completed our conduct forms and pre-reflection. We looked at our website and found the contact page. We played an Instagram "Find Someone Who..." game. We connected via Remind messaging (sending a photo and a bio for the Portfolio page on our website).
We discussed what we loved about the previous reflective seminar in SI1 and learned about half of us are new to the scholars program this year! This is the first SI for many of us! Then, we made mini-sculptures (posted to our portfolio page) which exemplify a teacher trait (we looked at the "guest speakers" topics on the activities page for inspiration) or an educational issue about which we are passionate. We each introduced ourselves and spoke about what this word means to us specifically. These inspired us to talk about many early childhood considerations (working with and caring for families, teaching, the whole child, working in various school settings, approaches to early education, and more)! Finally, we made a circle and played the Name Game and an About Me game to get to know each other a little more. More to come... Our group is amazing : ) |