Reflective Reinvention: Let’s Turn Back the Clock to our First Few Years in the Classroom

This roundtable discussion will begin with the facilitator sharing experiences with meaningful mentors, significant student experiences, and other early teaching moments in order to bring forward and reignite the initial passion behind some of the OBTC’ers and their profession. Participants will be asked to share similar experiences, with one goal of the session being to specifically identify “lost moments” or “forgotten techniques” that if reintroduced, may enhance the classroom experience for the students (and the instructor as well!). Additional outcomes may include the sharing of knowledge between participants, so as we can learn from each other in regards to what meaningful exercises/techniques/projects were done in their early days of teaching, which may have been long forgotten and could be beneficial to today’s students.