Rebecca'a Video Reflection #2

My ideas on how to improve America's schools for C&I 602 class.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• rebecca
• reflection
• school
• improvement
• year round
• curiosity
• learning
• teaching

[rebeccaLAmeb]

I know that my daughter received a "Summer Learning Workbook" this past summer. She would do a page or two a day to keep up with it. However, I was a stay-at-home mom, so I was here to help her and keep her on task. It sounds as though your own mother was great at keeping you occupied and learning. But what about those that work, which is more the norm these days?

[stacyhutch87]

Something that I hadn’t thought about in a positive way was the year-round schooling system that you suggest. I had figured that going for 2 months and being off for 1 month would mess up students more than going for the full 9ish months and being off for the summer. I guess there is a positive to having year-round school due to the examples that My question is how does it impact teachers’ roles and how will their teaching strategies change? Also, how do students feel about this change?

[MrKorth87]

I agree that students do lose a lot of the information they learned over the summer, and I did notice this as a student. I feel that it had a greater impact on me when I was younger, and less as I got older. Would it work if you only changed the school year for the younger students? I think that there could be a way to keep the students active and learning even without being in school if changing the whole time off were too much to change. I know that during the summer when I was younger my

[MrKorth87]

mother would have us do different school tasks every morning from 8 to 10 am. We had to get the school work complete, before we could go outside and play. I feel that this kept me thinking over the summer and had me ready for the next school year. We wouldn't do anything too difficult, just had a book to read and write a book report, we did a science fair project, math problems, spelling words and so on. The schools could come up with a list of things for kids to do over the summer.