Teaching Teachers at Punahou This Summer
Adults were the ones taking classes on Punahou School’s campus Monday and Tuesday this week.
The school’s annual Brain Symposium is growing into a professional development mecca for both public and private educators in Hawaii and several western states.
This year’s symposium featured Baylor University neuroscientist David Eagleman (also now a ) and drew 231 teachers representing more than 50 public schools, 16 private schools and several other educational institutions.
Energy levels were high, with questions peppered on speakers after each of the eight sessions (full disclosure: Community-Host Dan Zelikman and I together led a breakout session discussion of social media in the classroom).
Lessons from video games (they’re not all bad) and ways to avoid copy/paste homework in digital world (hint: oral presentations) were just two unconventional ideas put to discussion.
You can check out some of the juicier tidbits from the symposium by reading the on Twitter.
This is the first of two professional development conferences at Punahou this summer. The , scheduled for July 5-15, is a two-week program for teachers that focuses on how to use technology in the classroom.
