Some really cool classroom stuff

I can't wait to get back to my class and use some of the things I've learned. Friday at the Lamaze 2016 conference I attended a session "Design your Lamaze classes to maximize learning." It was fabulous!
I have so many great ideas to put into practice and I learned a great way to structure my lessons so that my students will not only learn better but retain the information better.

There is another session about the "flipped" classroom that I am excited about too. I am having some trouble deciding between certain sessions and I attended one today that I didn't get much out of and probably would have been better off going to a different one.

Overall I'm gaining a lot and will need to take some time to process everything when I get home. Lamaze truly is a fabulous organization and I happy I chose this route.

Here are some new friends I made including the current president Maria Brooks. She is at the end of her term and a new president will be elected at this conference.

And they have posters here! Just like all the scientific conferences I've been to. So fun and familiar. 

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