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El Dorado, Kan. —
The Kansas Teacher of the Year (KTOY) Team spent Tuesday and Wednesday visiting El Dorado schools and various places in the city.
The team consists of the Kanas Teacher of the Year finalists and the winner. Their hostess for the visit was El Dorado Middle School teacher and 2010 Region 4 Regional Finalist for the award LuAnne Vides.
Following a welcome breakfast Tuesday morning, the group visited the middle school where they met with staff, then received an iPod lesson from the seventh grade math class.
From there, they traveled to the high school, where they visited Falisa Calhoun’s Honors English class and saw a presentation by students using the 1:1 laptop initiative. They also had the opportunity to talk with students about using the laptops.
While at the high school, they also visited the Tech Café before heading to Skelly Elementary, where they stopped in Mary Martha Good’s kindergarten class.
They also visited the YMCA for a luncheon, with presentations by Frontier Refinery, Numana, the YMCA and Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital, after which they took a tour of the YMCA.
The afternoon brought a tour of the walking trail, Bluestem Lake and the Train Depot.
They also visited Lincoln Elementary, where they learned about MTSS, data notebooks and the Social Smarts Program.
Other stops took them to Flinthills Services and the Coutts Museum of Art, before they traveled to Jacob’s Well for dinner and a presentation by EHS students Allie McKibban and Jake Provo on forensics, debate and student congress.
Provo told them how they had started off with six students in debate and forensics and now they have 65, and they have become a team that competes nationally.
Provo and McKibban both talked about how they got involved in forensics and debate and the impact it has had on them.
“Forensics gave me a family at the high school,” McKibban said.
Tuesday evening the group went to Butler Community College to give a presentation on KTOY to a group of BEST students.
On Wednesday, the group visited the Extend program and the middle school, where they visited several classrooms and the tech lab. They also met with Doug and Julie Jensen to learn more about technology in the district before lunch.
Following lunch, they traveled to the Kansas Oil Museum and Vides’ farm.
The Kansas Teacher of the Year (KTOY) Team spent Tuesday and Wednesday visiting El Dorado schools and various places in the city.
The team consists of the Kanas Teacher of the Year finalists and the winner. Their hostess for the visit was El Dorado Middle School teacher and 2010 Region 4 Regional Finalist for the award LuAnne Vides.
Following a welcome breakfast Tuesday morning, the group visited the middle school where they met with staff, then received an iPod lesson from the seventh grade math class.
From there, they traveled to the high school, where they visited Falisa Calhoun’s Honors English class and saw a presentation by students using the 1:1 laptop initiative. They also had the opportunity to talk with students about using the laptops.
While at the high school, they also visited the Tech Café before heading to Skelly Elementary, where they stopped in Mary Martha Good’s kindergarten class.
They also visited the YMCA for a luncheon, with presentations by Frontier Refinery, Numana, the YMCA and Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital, after which they took a tour of the YMCA.
The afternoon brought a tour of the walking trail, Bluestem Lake and the Train Depot.
They also visited Lincoln Elementary, where they learned about MTSS, data notebooks and the Social Smarts Program.
Other stops took them to Flinthills Services and the Coutts Museum of Art, before they traveled to Jacob’s Well for dinner and a presentation by EHS students Allie McKibban and Jake Provo on forensics, debate and student congress.
Provo told them how they had started off with six students in debate and forensics and now they have 65, and they have become a team that competes nationally.
Provo and McKibban both talked about how they got involved in forensics and debate and the impact it has had on them.
“Forensics gave me a family at the high school,” McKibban said.
Tuesday evening the group went to Butler Community College to give a presentation on KTOY to a group of BEST students.
On Wednesday, the group visited the Extend program and the middle school, where they visited several classrooms and the tech lab. They also met with Doug and Julie Jensen to learn more about technology in the district before lunch.
Following lunch, they traveled to the Kansas Oil Museum and Vides’ farm.
