Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Help students

After working on my game-plan for several weeks now something would be amiss if it were not benefiting my students. After all, this is the main purpose for the game-plans existence. I have been taking Masters level courses in order not to benefit me, but to provide better experiences for my students.

One of my goals was working on my professionalism. This goal doesnt directly benefit my students. However, I believe that furthering my knowledge and developing contacts and relationships with other professionals will indirectly provide a tremendous benefit for my students as they are introduced to new experiences and possibly new opportunities.

The second goal was to provide students with digital age experiences. I think that this is a wonderful way to directly influence my students for the better. So much of school is the same focus as 10 or even 20 years ago. However, so much of the workplace has changed. There is such a focus on digital life and technology that if students were presented with the same learning as their parents the system would be an abject failure. I attempt every day to provide my students with digital age experiences that are not only interesting to them, but will give them experience that will benefit them in the workplace. I think that students who know how to use word processors and students who know how to make interesting presentations are destined to be more successful than students who are unable to do these things.

2 comments:

  1. You've done a nice job. I agree with your outlook and how fortunate that your students have you for a teacher! It struck me when you sais you're doing this for your students, not yourself. How great that you've learned things you can directly use with them!

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  2. James,
    I absolutely agree that technology experience and skill are crucial to the ultimate success of our students! However, not only are the word processing and presentation skills important, but the collaboration skills are imperative for student future success!

    Great job!

    Julie

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