Outside the Classroom

What activities do you participate in outside of the classroom / outside of your regular job duties / that are important to you or reflect your personal passions?  

If you are in a classroom, do these end up getting reflected in some way in your classroom?

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Permalink Reply by Alice Keeler on June 10, 2011 at 5:41pm
I have a passion for doing teacher trainings. Any chance I get I will do formal professional development trainings or ad hoc... whoa to the teacher standing near me in the grocery store line :) This helps spread not only my ideas, but opens up opportunities to learn what other educators are doing that I can take back to my classroom.  Helps me to feel energized and ready to try new things!
Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on June 11, 2011 at 9:04am
Alice--there is a professional developers group here.  Seems like you could bring some energy to it!  :)
Permalink Reply by Julie Cobb on August 4, 2011 at 10:00am
I have participated in the Arkansas Leadership Academy Teacher Leader Institute the last several years in various capacities. Most recently as a facilitator. I have found that sharing new ideas and helping teachers see new ways to meet the needs of students is an incredible experience.
I have never returned from an Institue without something to take straight back to my classroom the next day.
Permalink Reply by Miranda Adams on September 16, 2011 at 8:05am

I LOVE competitive sports! I have taken several years worth of karate and am planning to start Judo/Jujitsu later this fall. I truly like to push my limits and see just how far I can go.

 

I guess this does come out in my classroom because I encourage my students to dig deep and find out what they're truly made of. 

Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on September 23, 2011 at 1:04pm
I love the connection you've made there between your own personality and how that relates to helping your students find the same mettle.  :)  Do they know about your love of competitive sports?  Do you make that connection directly with them?
Permalink Reply by Carmin Karasic on September 22, 2011 at 3:22am
I am a multimedia artist.  Creating my art in extremely important to me.  Without an outlet for creativity beyond teaching, I would feel caged and unfulfilled. I love teaching, but it doesn't allow totally free self-expression.  I need that too.
Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on September 23, 2011 at 1:05pm
Do you share your art with your students?
Permalink Reply by Leanna K Johnson on September 23, 2011 at 2:38pm

I maintain several websites: our school's website, a cooking/recipe site(new), and a couple of teacher resource sites. One is for my building's teachers so they have resources for the tools that are in their classrooms, and the other is for a larger audience. I began collecting resources in 2009 for my online courses and realized bookmarking would NOT manage so many, plus I wanted to share them anyway because I like to share. It's one of those things I supposedly learned in kindergarten. :-) although I think my parents get that credit. I would say that helping others to learn is my consuming passion and it doesn't matter what age the learners are. 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on September 23, 2011 at 2:51pm
I'm guessing you already know about social bookmarking services that allow you to bookmark and then place widgets of those links, categorized the way you want, on other sites?  If not, both Diigo and Delicious do this!
Permalink Reply by Leanna K Johnson on September 23, 2011 at 3:05pm
Okay, I've been lax on doing that! When I started the site, I didn't know about them and only used Firefox. You've given me incentive to move forward. I have been using Pearltrees lately because I love concept maps and it is similar. Thank you because I need the push to use Diigo (unused account right now).
Permalink Reply by Sue Brown on November 18, 2011 at 11:46am

I am a volunteer with NSW State Emergency Service. In our unit I am the Operations Controller which means that in times of disaster I manage the teams and the completion of the jobs. I check the seriousness of the jobs as they come in and then decide which teams are best suited to do them. I have been associated with SES since 1988 and can see myself staying with this wonderful organisation until I am no loger able to be useful with them.  I am also a work place trainer with SES and conduct training sessions. I do induction for new members, communication (radios), Working in Operation Centers and an SES specific course that trains members to enter data into our job database and then use the database to manage the job flow.

 

For relaxation I enjoy geocaching... a sport/hobby/pastime/obsession which is shared by millions of people all over the world but know of by few outside the hobby. We use GPS devices to hide and search for containers in the environment. We hide waterproof containers (some with small treasures for kids) in interesting locations and then post the co-ordinates on a website. Others can download these co-ordinates and go to the location and share the view or the walk or the natural beauty or the history and also find the cache. It gets me out in the open and to many places I would otherwise have not visited

 

Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on February 14, 2012 at 12:38pm

I definitely need to learn more about geocaching! 

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