Every once in a while a high school student wishes that there were some things different about high school. Not just the typical "I wish we never had homework," but also some creative ideas that can help improve them and their classmates learning. Today you will be reading about the different opinions students have about what they want to change about highschool. Hopefully you will learn something new about the things that can make high school a happier and stress free place.
While I was looking at some teens opinions there was one that I found quite interesting which said"@HuffPostTeen I wish they taught us how to pay our taxes or handle the debt of a college education." This is definitely some thing that the teacher and school staff should take into consideration. Many senior students may be afraid of what their life after high school would be like. A course that can offer to teach you how to handle your life after you've moved out of your parents house will be reassuring. This course can definitely prepare you for what your future holds and can be a great start to your independent life. Courses like this could teach you about taxes, the government and maybe even how to write a good job resume.
Another post that seemed like a good idea said "@HuffPostTeen Eliminate grades, focus on learning not memorizing." I'd have to say that I definitely agree on this opinion. Focusing on learning rather than memorizing would definitely make learning new things better. Many kids are often stressing about many tests coming up and only focus on memorizing for the day of the test. After they're finished that test they immediately forget everything they memorized because they see no more use for it. But if you're given actual projects and assignments that have to do with what your learning then you will actually remember and understand what your doing. Such as innovation week, we got a whole week to learn about new things and it was a great opportunity for everyone.
My opinion of changing one thing about high school is mostly the same topic as the paragraph above. We should definitely have more projects and assignments that represent out learning rather than tests. Many people get nervous from tests and don't get to do their best, but if teachers can come up with more and more ways to show our progress that would definitely make a difference in our learning.
Friday, 14 March 2014
Current Events: Things that Should be Changed About High School
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Manreet,
ReplyDeleteYou did really well on this post! Try to make sure if there is more than
one person you put an s at the end for example teacher to teachers. You did really good on your spelling, grammar, and punctuation! Keep up the good work!
Manreet,
ReplyDeleteYou did a good job on writing the paragraphs in full detail. I have noticed some minor punctuation errors, but was still well done.
Both commenters are starting to get the idea of offering feedback through comments. Helpful hint: try focusing more on the ideas and the flow of the language than all the "little" errors in punctuation, unless they are repetitive or distracting. We can still mention them, but perhaps offer a suggestion as to how to correct the sentence or rephrase to make the wording more clear, interesting or flow better.
ReplyDeleteManreet, I enjoyed seeing you includes specific references from the article in your response. Your ideas for the "new course" are good ones. Did you know that here in BC we used to have and currently still do have parts of our courses that will be addressing some of these issues. For example in my highschool days (not that long ago!) we did have a course called Consumer Education which was a graduation requirement at gr 10 or 11 and in that course you were taught things about budgeting as well as filing your taxes. My "tests" were to fill out tax forms based on fictional family situations. Today you will eventually do some of these things in Planning 10 and I think part of your grad transitions portfolio requires some of these types of tasks.These are still graduation requirements. However, I agree with you that perhaps more could be done. Perhaps a mandatory business ed course that includes such things as investing, saving, reading and understanding our banking systems a little more as well as budgeting and learning about taxes.
Start thinking about adding links, references, visuals, etc to enhance your posts. These are the advantages of online formats and part of learning about multi-media communication and digital literacy.
Keep up the efforts Manreet. Your attention to criteria and expectations in your posts are showing regular improvement.