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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Hike Up

Hiking Up

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas

We have sprung into action, seek council, set goals, done path planning, and now it is time to hike up, toward our goal and back.  It is now time to take our place on the road.  It is now time to begin our journey toward that educational goal that we have set and plan to reach.  It is now time to take action, and hike.

As we hike we can begin to see if the path we have planned is  clear and defined.  We can begin to see how good our road-map is.  It is now when the obstacles and challenges that we have and have not prepared for may appear.  We must do what we can to continue hiking up to our goal.

One last chance is presented to us just prior to setting off on a hike.  Do we go?  If we are ready, and we are sure, and we are confident that we have done all that we can to prepare, then we should go on with our hike and toward our goal.

Did we reach our goal?  Were we able to succeed in reaching the goals that we set and planned?  and if we did not, what can we do to reach our goal? do we need to seek more council? do we need to plan another path? As we go on with our hike, these are some of the concerns that we must maintain in mind.  There are many others that we may come across, and some that we cannot anticipate to accurately predict in the future.  But we must hike up to our goal, even if we need to stop.

If we were able to reach our goal, then we must also be able to return back safely to our place of origin, this will consist a successful hike.  We now evaluate our hike and learn from it.  We can now decide if the hike was indeed successful.  Was the hike a good path to reach our goal?  How was our hike? We learn from each individual experience, the experience of the whole, and what we learn, we share again in council, a council in which we can also decide if we are going to hike again, and if so, when.

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Creating an Education Plan (Part 2)

Education Plan Presentation

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas

A good education plan should begin with a brainstorm.  A brainstorm allows the brain to storm thoughts and ideas.  While these thoughts and ideas are storming out of our brain, we must also keep present in mind, that the brainstorming of an education plan will directly affect students, and we must shelter them from any hazards that may appear.  Following the brainstorm of the education plan is the presentation.

Developing the presentation of an education plan takes three stages: Time, Place, and Communication.  These three stages establish the parameters that we need to present the education plan not only to our students, but also to ourselves and others whose guidance can help us in the creation of an education plan.

Time

How much time can we allocate to the presentation of an education plan? Is the plan being created for a 30 minute lesson, for a 5-day week with 1 hour each day? Is this a month or year long plan? Will the plan be implemented tomorrow, next week, in a month, or the following year?  

Time is the first parameter we must take into consideration when creating an education plan.  Once we know how much time we can allocate to the presentation of an education plan, we can proceed to the next stage.

Place

Where is the education plan taking place?  Are we limited to the classroom?  Can we go on a field trip?  Do the school facilities contain the necessary locations and accommodations for the education plan that we are going to create?  

Upon knowing how much time we have, we now need a place where the plan that we are presenting can be implemented and executed.  The second stage of presenting an education plan is finding a location that is suitable.

 

Communication

The third stage in an education plan presentation is communication.  How do we communicate what we want to present in our education plan? Will this be a reading or a lecture? Are notes going to be taken or will there be question/answer interaction? Do we create or project audio/visual aids that enhance the effectiveness of communicating the presentation?   

Communicating, in the allocated time, at the place where we are presenting our education plan, is the final stage, in the presentation of an educational plan, that is being created.

The presentation of an education plan serves the purpose of creating a method of communication.  With the ability to communicate and present the brainstorm of an education plan, we have gotten closer to completing the creation of a good education plan.  By now, our education plan has weathered the brainstorm of ideas, both good and bad, and has a method by which it can be communicated to others.  This is only the start to the creation of an education plan.  Now comes the structure and composition to complete the creation of our education plan.

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