It was a great experience getting to chat with colleagues from other cohorts (PL-Tech and Middle Years). It was interesting with the 2 sessions outline. I had one session with my research topic: the inquiry based learning and the other an interest of my choice: differentiated learning. The first session was with people with similar research topic, and the second was people who have a keen interest and perhaps have not done explicit research. I really enjoyed the differentiated learning session, even though none of us in the group have done research on it, everyone contributed and made connections to their practicum class. I was even able to bring experiences from our Cougar Canyon social studies class to the discussion. Our discussion revolved around what might differentiated classroom might look like: standing tables? desks? how do we meet all students learning needs?

I wished we had a bit more time to rotate through different topics too! It would have been nice if we had a bigger room to facilitate a big group sharing such as this.