This should be an exciting week. I'm hours away from leaving for Qatar to present and participate in the Flat Classroom Conference at the invitation of the Qatar Academy in Doha. At the conference I will lead LIGHTS, CAMERA, LEARN! workshops for teachers and students from Ethiopia, Australia, India, Pakistan , Oman and the USA. I'll work with film studies students to document the conference and sit-in on a couple of pane l discussions. I think I'm most excited about the opportunity to present a unit on TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD to a 10th grade English class. I think is the coolest thing, so soon after the inauguration of our new President. The Flat Classroom movement is great program created by Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis (coolcatteacher blog). Julie in Qatar and Vicki in Camilla, Georgia. It is based on the constructivist principle of a multi-modal learning environment that is student-centered and a level playing field for teacher to student and student to teacher intera...
