For the majority of the afternoon, we spent our time down on the floor of the large exhibition hall traveling around the the different quadrants with large groups of students. It was so neat to see what all the employers and businesses had to share about their companies and fields and how they adapted what they do to appeal to a predominately middle-school aged audience. The Construction area was definitely the one where I took many ideas away, followed closely by the Advanced Manufacturing. Don't get me wrong, the Information Technology and Health Sciences were pretty cool, the others appealed to some of the design things I would like to try with students.
This week I had the opportunity of attending the MiCareerQuestin Grand Rapids, MI. As part of the event, West Michigan Tech Talent and Kent ISD teamed up to provided a special learning opportunity for teachers during the career event that was being held for students. As an educator, this was a great way to connect with professionals and have conversations about what they are looking for in potential employees (our students) and how we can help prepare them for jobs. Although the focus of our educator event was centered around technology, so many of the concepts can be carried over into most other career fields. I created the sketchnote above based on my learning for the day and the one thing that really stuck with me was that of "Digital Disruption." We need to disrupt our way of thinking in order to move forward - especially in regards to technology as it is hard to find a job that does not utilize technology in some way. It really made me think deeper about our learning in general as we often need to disrupt our way of thinking to meet the needs our students - there is no one size fits all learning method. As part of the educator event, we had the AMAZING opportunity to learn more about coding with Arduino and building circuits with TinkerCad. I have not explored using Arduino or any of the tutorials in TinkerCad so it was pretty fun learning something new. I always love when I am put in the seat of the student and learning something new. I partnered up with someone and we definitely experienced some successes as well as some fails. It was great learning about it though and having people in the room who have used it before to help us along the way and think about uses in the classroom. For the majority of the afternoon, we spent our time down on the floor of the large exhibition hall traveling around the the different quadrants with large groups of students. It was so neat to see what all the employers and businesses had to share about their companies and fields and how they adapted what they do to appeal to a predominately middle-school aged audience. The Construction area was definitely the one where I took many ideas away, followed closely by the Advanced Manufacturing. Don't get me wrong, the Information Technology and Health Sciences were pretty cool, the others appealed to some of the design things I would like to try with students. It was definitely a great day of learning and I can't wait to see what they do next year!
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I am not sure if it is the time of year where everyone is ready for a break or if seniors are starting to come to the realization that life will not be a normal high school life in several months when they graduate. Either way, we felt it was a great time for a Quickfire! There has been some noticeable stress and anxiety lately with students looking for help or assurance, so why not do a little something to help them out and point them in a forward direction? In the third trimester, our seniors take part of a "Capstone" experience where they explore a career, interview people in the field, research, write a paper, present to an audience, and other related experiences. So, as an activity leading up to this big project in a couple of months, we had the students complete an online personality survey to see what their preferences about topics say about their:
After reading about their personality type and exploring some of the career paths for their personality type, we asked the students to create a representation of a career of interest using pipe cleaners. With this part, the students not only had to isolate one career option, but also translate how that career could be visually represented. This part was difficult for many because the provided career options were ones they weren't familiar with, difficult to represent an aspect of that career, or weren't sure how they fit into that particular career. I think it was a great activity for them to explore and start thinking about possible careers before the third trimester arrives. Student CreationsNote: For these photos, I tried using Google PhotoScan. What I learned is that you get great images if you take a couple of seconds to line everything up and are not distracted talking, or answering questions while trying to take pictures of each sheet. I apologize in advance for some pictures that might look a little distorted. ;) |
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