Goals We Have Met

As we close our classrooms for the winter, it is important that we acknowledge the educational goals we have met.  Goals that we accomplished last year with our previous class of students, goals that we are working on to accomplish with next year's class of students.  We have worked together, in collaboration, toward the improvement of our education by achieving these goals.

The goals that we have met are of a great variety: Some are personal goals, others professional.  Some can seem simple and insignificant, but these may also prove to be some of our greatest challenges.  Yet other goals that we have labeled as complex and of great importance could have been accomplished with a great deal of ease.

Perhaps it is reaching out to a student in school who is having a difficult time breaking out of their shell, and with our help they begin to develop the social skills that will help them interact and socialize with their classmates.  Staying after school to help a group of students complete a project or just hang out until they are ready to be picked up from school.  Even helping a college during lunch break with the development of a lesson plan, grading homework, or to catch up on with our grades.

Our goals that we have met should be acknowledge and celebrated for we may know know just how meaningful they were to those who were on the receiving end of them.  All of us who are in education should make the time to say thank you and congratulations to each other as this year comes to an end this Winter break, and we look back on all the educational goals that we have met. 

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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Accomplishments to Date

We should take the time to reflect on the educational accomplishments we have reached to this date.  In January we came back from Winter break, which was followed by Spring break, then Summer break, recently Fall/Autumn break, and once again back to another Winter break.  All these breaks may invoke images of fun filled vacation time for some, for others planned work time.

All these breaks across the seasons crossing two distinct groups of students, two unique classrooms, which we have transitioned over the past year.  Two groups of students, two classrooms, one which has advanced on, the other arriving to their own.  To one we said "Good-bye, take care." to the other "Hello, and welcome."

We created lessons and executed them by implementing such plans into the classroom.  We watched and guided our students through these lessons as they followed directions, payed attention to instructions, learned and developed the knowledge and skills required, and demonstrated, by communicating to us clearly, that they understood and were able to apply their newly acquired knowledge and skills.

We have achieved educational accomplishments to date, that we set for ourselves many days ago, and look forward to what we can accomplish in future days to come, as we start another year after Winter break.

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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Celebrating

We come to the halfway mark of December.  In education we get ready to close a year, while looking ahead toward our own academic midpoint.  As we get ready to close the year and go into winter break, we should take time to celebrate the accomplishment of goals we have set.  We should recognize the achievements we have reached in school, in our educational path.

In education we should make place to celebrate accomplishments.  Celebrating our accomplishments to date should take place in our classrooms, at home, throughout school, and the community.  We should give recognition for the accomplishments that our learners have learned up until now.  Recognition can also serve to us as a tool to measure a learner's growth.  It can also give learners an additional opportunity to communicate and demonstrate to us that they have an understanding of what has been learned by the learner.

 

In education we should make place to celebrate goals.  Celebrating the goals that we have met should take place in our classrooms, at home, throughout school, and the community.  We should give recognition for the goals that our learners have met.  Recognizing the goals that our learner's have met can serve as a tool to measure a learner's growth.  It can also give learners an additional opportunity to communicate and demonstrate to us that they have an understanding of what has been learned by the learner.

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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Now to Next Year

As December comes to an end, we are presented with the opportunity to plan ahead at what we envision taking place from now to next year.  In education, this planning takes us from this year's class of students, through Summer, to next year's class of students.  We visualize the growth we will do as Educators, Teachers, Students, Learners.

We should make time to plan ahead at how we will help our students succeed this year, and how we will welcome those who will join in next year.  Take time to review our thoughts and ideas, and draw from them for inspiration to create new ones.  Take a look at what is working, what we can improve upon, how to be more efficient, how to be more successful.  Allow students to search further on their own by becoming engaged learners.

We should take the time to plan ahead and keep in mind that our teachers will be there to help us this year and next.  Keep in mind where we are as students in this year's grade, and visualize where we would like to be as students next year.  Take time to plan ahead and envision how the education we are pursuing can be applied to improve the quality of our lives.

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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Last Year to Now

As December comes to an end, we are presented with the opportunity to reflect on what has taken place from last year to now.  In education, this reflection takes us back from last year's class of students, through Summer, to this year's class of students.  We have all grown over this time: Educators, Teachers, Students, Learners.

We should make time to look back at how we help our students close last year.  Review our thoughts and ideas, and draw from them for inspiration to create new ones.  Take a look at which lessons worked, which did not, which had an effect which we did not expect, and which lessons help lightened the mood of our students, allowing them to become engaged learners eager to search further on their own.

We should take the time to look back and remember how our teachers helped us last year.  Remember where we were at as students in last year's grade, and keep in mind where we are as students in this year's grade.  Reflect on what we have learned, how we learned it, and what we can do to apply this new knowledge to further our studies.

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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Transitioning

Transitioning

As we approach the close of the year, we prepare ourselves so we may transition from one year into another.   We look back at where we were back in January, and review the journey we have gone through for almost twelve months.  We picture ourselves with a new year to come, and a new slate upon which we can carve a new path.  For those who are in education, the transition period includes our march toward the halfway mark of the school year.

Last year to now

From last year to now, our students have completed and advanced a grade level, our teachers have taught last year's class and welcome this years students, our lives have been changed, in different degrees, by the events and experiences which we have faced.  There were summer plans, summer school, and summer camps during a break in which we we all preparing ourselves for the current academic year.  Teacher lesson plans were reviewed, recycled, rejected, and/or reinstated into their lessons, and students matured and grew up as they moved up further in their educational paths.

Now to next year

From now to next year, our students would have completed this grade level, and be on their way on to their next one.  Our teachers, having said farewell to this year's class, would be welcoming the next class of students entering their classrooms.  We do not know with certainty were we will be, but we hope that it will be in good conditions, a better situation.  We will do our best to anticipate the needs we may have, not just of our own, but for others as well.  Students will continue onward with their education while being guided by their teachers.

Continuation

For now, both students and teachers are going on with the continuation of this school year.  We are not quite at the halfway mark, but it will be here soon, and this transitioning period can be helpful in making adjustments to each others educational needs.   This is a period of school time in which both great progress and terrible loss can occur.  It is a time to become self-assessed and make sure that we are placing our collective efforts toward the betterment of our education.

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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Transitioning and Celebrating

We are closing the year this December as we transition into a new year which shall begin, once again, as this year did, in January.  We are at a period in time when we are transitioning, and we are also celebrating.  During this period of time in which we are transitioning, we also celebrate and make time to reflect on the past, the present, and the future.

The Transitioning period can be defined by two components: Transition from Last Year to Now, and Transition from Now to Next Year.  We are coming out of the past and are going into the future.  We have learned the knowledge of what has been, and ponder the knowledge of what will be.  We take account and give projections, and hope and think of a better tomorrow.

The Celebrating period can be defined by two components: Celebration of Accomplishments to Date, and Celebration of Goals We have Met.  We have achieved accomplishments and met goals we set.  We are aware of what we have learned, and have learned to be disciplined by establishing ending periods.  We display our knowledge with pride but remain humble by our non-knowledge.

As we transition and celebrate, we learn about our personal education and growth as individuals, collectively as a people, while trying our best to prepare, present, and preserve a selected collection of knowledge and information for others to utilize.  We place ourselves in the posterity of time through the education we leave behind.

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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December 2013

The month of December brings about the season of the holidays.

The holidays, and the month, cycle in a period of transitioning and celebrating for us all.

In education we are going from last school year to this school year, and chronologically, we are going from this year tot he next.

It is the time to check our accomplishments to date, as well as the goals that have been meet thus far by all of us who are active participants in the educational journey.

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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