Learning Community Annual Conference

Unfortunately I was only able to attend one session of the conference and the lunch. The session I attended was over identifying and utilizing personal strengths whether it is in yourself as an individual, or in a member of your group. The speaker presented an overview of an ISTRENGHs assessment which is very similar to the MBTI except it covers more and provides a broader scope of traits specifically strengths of an individual.
         One thing I took away from the meeting and the speaker was that as a peer mentor or any leadership role, you should always be striving to identify what your strengths are and develop new ways to utilize them when presented with different situations that require a different strength to overcome. The way I would apply this as a peer mentor would be to use this type of mindset whenever I am aware of a difficult situation that way I would find new ways to utilize either the strengths I have, or utilize the strengths of the people around me.
         The lunch was really good, and it was fun to sit around and discuss different sessions of the conference with other peer mentors and Silas. Everyone seemed to enjoy what each session had to offer, and after discussing it we all agreed that it was a very useful and applicative conference.
         This is the week that I am presenting a lesson plan over Ch. 3 in our Students Helping Students Book for the Hixson Peer Mentor class, and I am really excited to get my first experience with creating and implementing an actual lesson plan. After meeting with Silas and Allie, I feel like they were able to offer my partner, Lauren Huebbe, and me a lot of great ideas for the lesson plan which really helped us understand what makes a good lesson plan great.