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Finals Prep

03 Saturday Dec 2011

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decision, education, exams, finals, high school, parents, Sports, support

The never-ending battle between sports and academics goes on and on.  Today I was involved in coordinating a finals prep workshop for ninth and tenth graders who we identified as “support eligible.”  Our marker was for students who held a GPA below a certain number.  It’s encouraging to see such a large presence of student-athletes that have signed up.  I feel like traditionally, they don’t always take advantage of opportunities for their academics like they would if it were sport related.

So what’s the catch?  It isn’t actually the students who are taking the initiative – it’s the parents.  The students with the most in-tuned, involved parents seem to be taking advantage of everything possible.  I don’t know if this is a good thing or not in the long run but I do see that what’s to offer, they have access to.  Parents would like to think that because their child is now in high school, they can fend for themselves.  For many this may be true, but I’m seeing a growing trend of the opposite.  I see kids who don’t check their emails, don’t make their schedules and hardly make their own decisions.  The decisions they do make usually end in them getting in trouble or being told they need to rethink their actions.

I wonder, although these kids have “access” to support and extra means, what are we as parents actually preparing them for?  What skills are we actually teaching our children?  These are things I ponder daily as I work with students.  The discussion I’d like to have is, what skills are needed for them to be prepared for their future.  Their future isn’t that far away from mine…

Learning and the Brain

20 Sunday Nov 2011

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Boston, Brain, cognitive, education, learning, school, technology

Here I am in Boston, Mass at a conference about learning and the brain. I haven’t had the time yet to fully debrief and think about what I’ve been experiencing however it is clear from these Harvard PHD profs that our educational structure (infrastructure) is incredibly outdated and must catch up with the time. As a few noted, we have an industrial system still running to serve 21st century minds. This is obviously highly problematic.

Everyone is looking for answers, sometimes myself included, but what I’m realizing is it’s time to use our devices, our technologies as tools to support learning, not as the only tool. Our minds have changed, our needs have changed, our relevancy is different – this must be reflected in our/with our teaching.

I’m thinking in terms of school and coaching, connecting with my players/students will be essential to forming a cohesive environment where all people thrive. I guess thriving can be relative but my hope is that through differentiated instruction folks walk away more prepared than they started.

All of this comes down to change. We must accept that the way we learned isn’t the way the new youth will or should learn…I mean why should the learn the same? It isn’t the same world they are preparing for…

Think about it…#lb30

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