Innovative Teacher Un-Conference
UNL Tech EDGE Conference
8:30 am –
12:00 pm
Henzlik Hall
Room: TBA
1430 Vine St
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: HENZ
You are invited to the Innovative Educator Un-Conference the morning of Saturday, October 19 at the UNL Pixel Lab in Henzlik Hall beginning at 8:30 AM. Come ready to participate with Microbits projects as you consider how coding can be integrated into your curriculum. Meet educators who are implementing innovative practices in their schools and learn how they did it. Learn more about UNL’s Innovative Educator Workshops you may want to join next summer. And have conversations around topics you would like to consider in your own school. The Un-Conference is free, but you do need to register by October 1 to allow us to plan. We hope to see you there!
Our mission is to prepare educators who are effective and confident facilitating learning in innovative settings. School leaders have indicated a challenge in finding and retaining educators who can be effective teaching in innovative environments, whether it is project-based learning, virtual, hybrid, outdoor, or international. Traditional teacher education programs are not necessarily providing the skills and dispositions needed for teachers to be impactful in innovative learning settings. The Think Tank will help inspire a program that will support innovative schools by providing teachers who can facilitate learning in a variety of settings using inquiry, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration. Our goal is to supplement traditional teacher education with the skills and dispositions that will create educators who can be consistently successful in innovative settings.
We are inviting innovators to share their expertise as together we imagine what innovative educator preparation looks like to meet the needs of the variety of new learning settings. We believe you could offer insight into the development of a 21st-century curriculum in teacher preparation.
Schedule
8:30 Registration and Refreshments
8:45-9:30 micro:bits project-based learning
9:30-10:15 Panel of Innovative Educators sharing what they are doing and how they got there
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:10 Mini Un Conference Round 1 (come with ideas and explore your topics)
11:10-11:45 Mini Un Conference Round 2
11:45-12:00 Closing Thoughts and Door Prizes!
Our mission is to prepare educators who are effective and confident facilitating learning in innovative settings. School leaders have indicated a challenge in finding and retaining educators who can be effective teaching in innovative environments, whether it is project-based learning, virtual, hybrid, outdoor, or international. Traditional teacher education programs are not necessarily providing the skills and dispositions needed for teachers to be impactful in innovative learning settings. The Think Tank will help inspire a program that will support innovative schools by providing teachers who can facilitate learning in a variety of settings using inquiry, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration. Our goal is to supplement traditional teacher education with the skills and dispositions that will create educators who can be consistently successful in innovative settings.
We are inviting innovators to share their expertise as together we imagine what innovative educator preparation looks like to meet the needs of the variety of new learning settings. We believe you could offer insight into the development of a 21st-century curriculum in teacher preparation.
Schedule
8:30 Registration and Refreshments
8:45-9:30 micro:bits project-based learning
9:30-10:15 Panel of Innovative Educators sharing what they are doing and how they got there
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:10 Mini Un Conference Round 1 (come with ideas and explore your topics)
11:10-11:45 Mini Un Conference Round 2
11:45-12:00 Closing Thoughts and Door Prizes!