The Hufffington Post article linked on the humanities blog shows the response of 20 teens via twitter when asked what they would change about highschool. Schedule changes were common as well as an equal focus on fine arts that is given to athletics. I thought a lot about what I would change in Highschool and although shortening school hours seemed like it would be a lot easier it wasn't a revolutionary idea and truthfully it was only encouraging us to be more lazy and that wouldn't help us when we got to university one day or even in a trade long hours are a part of life and we have to learn how to deal with them. so what could we change about highschool? Well I have an Idea.
Research has shown that each and every individual of any language or race has a learning style that falls under one of the following three categories Kinetic, Auditory, and Visual. Each teacher has a learning and teaching style that primarily falls under one of these categories as well so I propose that we separate students and teachers by the following categories ie Math-Visual or Science-Auditory.
Each person would learn in their categories until grade 10 and then in grade 11 and 12 mixed classrooms so that they develop the ability to work and learn in all environments.
I personally believe that this will help us learn the basics in an environment that caters to our learning needs a lot better, However switching to a mixed environment for the last two years of highschool will help ensure that we are not left shocked upon entering the "real world" after graduating.
Hi Victoria,
ReplyDeleteI liked how you gave your personal opinion about what you would change abour high school. But I think you were supposed to also talk about the via twitter comments that students gave on the website. You have a couple spelling errors and you could split the first lojg list into a paragraph.
Good effort!
Thanks Shallon, I will try to work on my spelling for next time. However I know that we were supposed to talk about what we would change from the description on the Hum 8 page. I really appreciated your comment; Thanks for the tips.
DeleteShallon - always good to be aware of your presentation, especially when publishing in a public forum, so spell in, grammar, and structure will be important. However, I also agree with Victoria that the main message and emphasis will always be on the meaning that is conveyed - does the author engage the audience, address the issue,etc.. This is also why we are learning about feedback and tips to improve throughout the year.
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ReplyDeleteOn another note - that is a unique idea to match teacher's instructional style's to learner's preferred learning style. I wonder though - would that make our classes more narrowly focussed for both teachers and students. How would we all develop a variety of skills? Perhaps this should be considered partially for some classes but still have some classes whereby you have a mix of skills, strengths and weaknesses.
On a blogging note - one of our goals is to develop further digital literacy skills so enhancing your posts with visuals, videos, or other links to make it easy and user friendly for your readers would enhance this kind of medium.