december 2008

We had some great workshops this month: at Maryborough from December 2 we ran the first ever combined Teacher and Mentor Workshop, with 11 teachers and 8 mentors present on Day One. The 8 mentors stayed on for the next two days. They were Suzy, Cheryl, Cheryll (with two l's), Jonathon, Emma, Anne and Trevor from WBIT and Peter from SkillsTech. Meredith was there too co-facilitating and multi-tasking.

Then on December 5 Meredith and I facilitated a Teacher Workshop at Bundaberg.

I got to have a weekend shopping in Brisbane and dinner with Simon and Janet on the Sunday evening then on December 8 and 9 Teacher Workshops at Acacia Ridge and 10 at Eagle Farm. Simon was there for all of these and I really appreciate his support and enthusiasm for TROPIC. We had fantastic participants in the workshops and great support also from Alex and Peter. Bob and Gillian from SQIT came along on the 8th. They have got a lot of things happening at SQIT in the new year and Gillian is setting up a TROPIC space in my.tafe so I'm sure we'll hear more about that soon. Lyndal co-facilitated on the 9th and took over the reins along with Simon on the 10th so I could get home and attend my youngest son's primary school graduation. Thanks to you all for your support and participation.

In the meantime there was another Teacher Workshop back here in Cairns on December 3 co-facilitated by Mike, Phil and Lyndal and the feedback from that was very positive.

There will be plenty happening with TROPIC next year as the action research project continues with WBIT, SQIT and TNQT. It looks like SkillsTech is going to continue to expand TROPIC as well and hopefully we can keep building the network links.

More photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/marthatropic and check out Simon's resources too at http://delicious.com/stonemasonry/TROPIC - link to Simon's photos also at left.

Wishing everyone a great Christmas and all the best for 2009.

cheers,

Martha