The leader of the film session, the district's Instructional Technology Specialist, provided us with many reflection questions and resources to consider during and after the documentary.
I found High Tech High's story to be highly engaging and interesting, however, the real world quickly came crashing down on me. My school in particular, has a lack of resources, state standards to follow, and community constraints. Though I was inspired by Most Likely to Succeed, the reality of my situation prevented me from truly buying into the message.
Relevance, personalization and meaning are words used more and more frequently to describe high quality student learning experiences.
How do these words resonate with or relate to the work you do as a teacher?
These words definitely resonate with me as a teacher, especially in my goals and learning targets for lessons and units. Relevance is the concept that I work hardest on in my instructional planning so far this year. I try my best to make the content I teach in history as relevant to modern issues and student lives as possible.
However, this is not easy. I find myself to be a little out of touch with my students' cultures, though I am not much older than them. However, I found during Election 2016 it was somewhat easy to raise the topics of politics and social issues. And when discussing the Black Death, I related it back to the recent Ebola problems of the last few years.
Basically, though it's not easy, I MUST MAKE MY CONTENT RELEVANT TO MY STUDENTS.
That is the moral of my story today-- I'm going to work hard to make my subject relevant and though I may not always be successful, all I can do is try.
Basically, though it's not easy, I MUST MAKE MY CONTENT RELEVANT TO MY STUDENTS.
That is the moral of my story today-- I'm going to work hard to make my subject relevant and though I may not always be successful, all I can do is try.
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