The night before, the high school principal made schedule changes to our plan for the day - so my presentation time was moved to earlier in the day, and the room was changed.
I had been up late again - preparing the presentation - but I enjoyed the challenge. I had to get my point across in 20 minutes. I lost almost ten minutes with tech issues - mostly my fault for not getting there earlier.
The presentation went very well, I was very satisfied. The topic was Accountable Talk - I started with a comic and the phrase “Are you listening?”, then I defined the word accountable, gave some synonyms, pictures, examples and non-examples. I defined accountable talk, showed what it looked like, sounded like, how we do it, why we do it, who can do it, and how teachers can implement it. I circled back the presentation to the phrase “are you listening?” with a tear-jerker video of a woman hearing for the first time. A bit forced ending, but my point was to not take for granted this gift of listening, and to have empathy when we do.
I got tears out of my participants.
Yes!
However, I did have a big disappointment too. Eight Turkish people had signed up for my session, only one showed. A few peeked in, but didn’t come back. Maybe some had been mixed about the location. Maybe it was because my room was full and there were no chairs. I don’t know - but I surely felt today my lack of relationship with my Turkish counterparts, and that was really disappointing.
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