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The Charlotte Teachers Institute welcomed 102 CMS teachers as 2010 CTI Fellows.
The 2010 orientation event was held on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at East Mecklenburg High School. The evening kicked off with Molly Shaw, CTI Director, leading all the teachers and faculty in a fun icebreaker called, "What would you have been if you weren't a teacher?" This was an opportunity to meet and learn about the 2010 cohort. All kinds of different careers were shared by the teachers, including NASA engineer, German chocolate baker, Nascar driver, and salsa dance instructor. One teacher remarked, "I wanted to be a teacher since I was in 1st grade. So if I wasn't a teacher, I don't think I'd be anything."
The evening continued with a brief overview of CTI presented by Molly Shaw and Connie Wood, East Mecklenburg Science Teacher and Seminar Coordinator, while the Fellows enjoyed pizza and soft drinks. Then the Fellows, lead by their Seminar Leaders, divided up into seminar topics and spent the next hour or so learning about the expectations of their particular seminar.
The evening was lively, warm and educational. All the photographs were taken by Jordan Reisterer, a 7th grader from Randolph IB Middle School. Enjoy.
The 2010 CTI Fellows Cohort poses for a classic group shot (Say Cheese!)
Connie Wood, Seminar Coordinator, is all smiles thinking about her "Environmental Sustainability" seminar
Deborah Monroy, Seminar Coordinator, is excited and ready to learn in
"How Languages are Learned and How Best to Teach Them" seminar
Fellows discussing interdisciplinary topics in the "Gender, Race and Justice" seminar
Fellows getting to work in the creative "Mathematics in Art" seminar
Susan Trammell, Seminar Leader, makes the world come alive in "Exploring the Solar System"
Fellows thinking about what's new in "The Rise of the New South" seminar
Fellows in "Redefining Modernism" eat pizza while talking about how cool the Bechtler Museum really is
Jordan Reisterer, 7th grader, approves of the personally transformative seminar "Writing For Your Life"
Kate Kinsman, Fellow in "Exploring the Solar System", thinks it's funny to eat a whole pizza in one sitting
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Each Institute links one or two institutions of higher education with a school district that serves a significant proportion of students from low-income communities. Institutes focus on the academic preparation of school teachers and on their application in their own classrooms of what they study in the Institute.
