On Friday, October 22, AVA had the privilege to spend the spend the day working with the NJ County Teachers of the Year at the Educational Testing Services Headquarters in Princeton, NJ. This energetic group, along with with over sixty other NJ educators including National Board Certified Teachers, Presidential Awardees for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and former NJ Teachers of the Year met on Saturday at ETS to participate in this years NJ Educational Forum. This year’s forum utilized the SMART Response System to encourage discussion and collaboration. Using the responders, attendees answered questions at the beginning of each of three sessions led by a content area expert in that field of assessment. Results were gathered again to ascertain varied opinions.
Congratulations to Tiffany Ricciardi (Hudson County Teacher of the Year) who was winner of the drawing for a SMART Response 24 Clicker Kit provided by Audio Visual Associates and SMART Technologies.