Tuesday
May312011
STAM Needs Your Help!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 10:57AM As we continue the process of building our new online home, we need your help! The web team is looking for the following items to help build our site:
- Digital photos from STAM Conferences of the past
- Quotes from current STAM members on "Why are you a part of STAM?"
- Digital copies of lesson plans in all content areas and age levels
If you have any of these, please fill out the Contact STAM form and we will be in touch! Thanks in advance for your help!
Reader Comments (7)
STAM makes it possible for speech and theater teachers from around the state to share resources. I learn something new every time I go to STAM. The workshops are helpful and it’s nice to talk to experienced teachers about issues you may be having. To top it all off STAM is Fun!
As a secondary teacher, it is so easy to feel isolated in our buildings, where we are usually the only ones teaching this content area. STAM makes me feel that I am part of a collaborative community--I couldn't survive without it!
I attended my first STAM conference in 1976 with Dr Leslie Irene Coger. Even as a college student, I found a welcoming, mentoring, fun-loving group of communication and performance professionals willing to give all they knew and have experienced to foster new skills and exciting techniques in colleagues and their students. Whether participating or leading a workshop, or discussing around a table in the Missouri Gallery of Theatre, diving for a spoon in a stress-busting game, or solving the intricate staging problems of a musical or a counter argument after hours, I always come away from a STAM conference with new and insightful ideas and techniques I can use in my classroom or my life. STAM never fails to get the theatre and forensics year started in a dynamic and powerful way!
STAM has been with out a doubt the best professional development activity I've attended throughout my teaching career. Mixing professionalism with fun is a great way to learn, grow and maintain the enthusiasm I need to be effective in the classroom.
STAM has provided me the wonderful opportunity to meet other teachers from around the state and also learn from them. We are each others best resource. STAM is without a doubt the best organization I belong to!
I couldn't survive without STAM. The friends, the mentoring, the networking. It stands alone in the nation with what it does and what it stands for.
STAM is an amazing organization. For over three decades I have learned from my colleagues throughout the state, many of whom I consider part of my "extended family" and cherished friends. Even now, retired from full-time teaching, I find myself using the materials I collected at the conferences in my weekly work with home-schooled students. Thank you, fellow STAM members, past and present!