Monday

Discussion Topic: My Students Five Years From Now

Explain how you want your class to impact your students five and ten years from now.

To help foster this thinking and discussion, consider the following:
  • What will the majority of your students be doing five and ten years from now?
  • What will your students draw from your classes that will benefit them five and ten years from now?

1 comment:

Michael Williams said...

In five years time, do not expect nor desire my students to recall any fact or piece of historical data from my class or any of my lessons. Instead, I want them to recall what they decided to learn more about on their own. I want them to know that in high school they were encouraged to think and taught how to discover new things that were of interest to them. I want them to read current events and know how to relate it to other arenas of their life and knowledge they have already gained.

In ten years time, I want my students to get it. At the point when their frontal lobes are fully developed and they have more life experience, I want them to look back to my class and think, "Holy crap, now I see what he was doing there. He planted seeds of continued learning and independent thought."