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Life Skills 9-23 We continued exploring resume writing. Today you were asked to sort and group all of the information you wrote done pertaining to past experiences (work related as well if you have any) education skills hobbies/interests You were given this sheet on action verbs to help you with ways of beginning the phrases

Life Skills 9-23 So we have finally been able to start looking at how to get a job. For next class please do some rapid idea generation and come up with as many ideas that you can, remember we are looking for quantity not quality, around the following topics related to your resume: past experiences

Please remember that once you are finished a project you can either come in and talk to me to discuss the creating, appraising, and communicating outcomes, or you can answer the questions that I am asking during the interview on your own time in a format that you think showcases your learning (written response, audio recording, video

At the student led conferences there were a few people who asked about how the students are being assessed. To clarify, the assessment is ongoing and occurs every class in an informal and formative way. What this means is that it is generally done through observation and is more focused on improving the students learning rather than

I have not been updating the blog as frequently as students are just continuing to work on their projects. We have close to 130 different projects between the 9 classes. As the students are improving their skills they are also problem solving and hopefully gaining confidence.  I am excited to see that some of the

Lifeskills 9-23 We have been exploring what makes us happy, our self image, and how others may view us. This last class we discussed possible influences on these concepts. Your assignment, which can be done by yourself or with a partner, is to pick an example of violence in the media and answer the following

C & D 7, 8, & 9 We took the time to go over some more safety items as we are now working with more equipment. This included cleaning up and safety tools and gear. We also discussed the need to slow down to make sure that we are doing things properly. This means that we do not

Construction & Design 7, 8, & 9 Students are in all different stages of their projects. Some have almost completed their first project whereas others have just starting working on figuring out what they would like to do. I am impressed by the level of depth that some of the students are going into as they