Teachers Learn by Doing, Too
AUGUST 19, 2013
Today’s ACT guest blog post was written by Jane Ching Fung, an ACT member and teacher from Los Angeles. Jane is a Milken Award winning teacher and has served in various leadership capacities for organizations such as NCTAF, CFTL, and PBS. She is a member of the Teacher Leaders Network, and her writing has also appeared in Education Week Teacher.
Jane Fung, center, teaches first grade English Language Learners in Los Angeles.
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
– Confucius
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It’s the last weeks before school starts. I could be working in my classroom and getting a head start on lesson planning. I could be lounging at the beach or enjoying my last week of freedom. I could be, but instead I jumped at the chance to join colleagues to learn more about the upcoming Next Generation Science Standards. I say upcoming because California has not yet “officially” adopted them, but we will, so why wait?
I wanted to know and learn more about STEM education and how to implement it in a
