Quotes From VISD Teachers

"Having the facilitators working with our students in our classrooms helped me to judge myself on how well I actually implemented the activities." - VISD language arts teacher, '07

"After watching Sally teach my 2nd block class how to build a machine, it made me realize how dull I have been in class. Thanks for helping me be a more productive facilitator." - VISD science teacher, '07

"I think you ladies are fantastic!" - Profit High School Teacher, '07

"Drama-based work, drama tools, and peer theatre have inspired new life and energy in me, my students, and the other ISS teachers in my school." - VISD Teacher, '06

"Group training is on target: goals are set forth, roles are defined and the ISS team presents new methods in a one-sized way." - VISD Teacher, '06

"The best part of my experience has been expanding my horizons for the benefit of the kids. My creative juices flowed in a different way than I usually do." - VISD Teacher, '06

"I have certainly enjoyed it (ISS ) more! (than other professional development programs) More active, more useful and real to me in the classroom." - VISD Teacher, '06

"I can't compare this to other programs! There is no other like it! I am taking more from this program than I could have achieved in a lifetime." - VISD Teacher, '06

"Like the students, I remember by "doing", "doing" the activities versus just reading about them has been helpful." - VISD Teacher, '06

"I loved how you immediately got us involved. I do not like trainings that lecture the entire time." - Patti Welder Teacher, '06

"I liked being able to talk about real life situations and the validation we received from each presenter, it helps in the learning." - VISD Teacher

"It was helpful being able to share ideas and get good ideas from caring knowledgeable professionals." - VISD Teacher

"Being a new teacher, even though I'm older and people think I've been doing this a while, I'm a new teacher. It basically showed me how, not only can you teach different ways, but you can assess kids in different ways. Some kids are not successful pencil and paper test takers, so it opened up a whole new world of assessment. It has also helped me to manage my classroom better." - VISD Geography and World Cultures teacher, '07

"Next year I really want to work on more of the role stuff. Because it works. The kids just, they are in to that, they want to interact. A lot of their behavior problems are because they want to talk to each other. The role stuff gets them to interact while learning and it controls the behavior problems. They are talking and it's loud but they are talking about the subject they are learning. So it solved the behavior problem." - VISD Geography and World Cultures teacher, '07

"When a student produces something that you may not have thought they could produce, and they didn't think, you know they say "I can't do that", well sure you can, and then they produce something wonderful, you know that just boosts them way up. And they are a lot more successful several days after that" - VISD Geography and World Cultures teacher, '07

"I have never been to workshops like that. We were able to get up and become someone else. The dialogue between teachers was powerful because, you get so many ideas on how to use that technique." - VISD Teacher