TEACHER TALES (10) Location

Fridays, 10-11:30am, April 18, 25, May 2, 9, 16, 23

In this interactive workshop we’ll share memories by tapping into our multiple intelligences through storytelling, writing, and visual imagery. As a teacher for 50 years of students from grade school in Brooklyn to Skidmore College, I have many tales to tell. And so do you. Whether an educator or student, you have a favorite memory of a particular student/ classmate, a challenging class, an amusing incident, a lesson that really succeeded or failed and other situations that occur as part of the life of a teacher. If you worked as a coach, librarian, camp counselor or in the school lunchroom you, too, have a tale to tell.

Resource material: Readings from the book How Do You Know When It’s Saturday? published by Rubin in 2017, will be distributed

1.Getting to Know You: Introductions, Multiple Intelligences (1983 Howard Gardner) Applying MI in the classroom

2.Memorable Students

3. First Year on the Job

4.Lessons Taught. Lessons Learned

5.Bloopers and Bouquets

6.Writing/Reading Circle

Leader: Joyce Rubin. During her 13 years at Skidmore College, Joyce served in the classroom, teaching courses in Curriculum and Instruction, Director of Student Teaching and Department Chair. She introduced applications of Multiple Intelligences to teachers in Antigua under UWW (University Without

Walls) and developed an exchange program with her students in Antigua and graduating Ed Studies students from Skidmore. She was a consultant for the NYS Division of Gifted Education and Saratoga BOCES. She has been active in ALL and on the Editorial Board of The Apple Tree. She currently facilitates creative writing courses at Saratoga Springs Senior Center and Wiawaka Center for Women on Lake George.