Today I experienced my first ever Genius Hour. I honestly had know idea what to expect but it was a very relaxing, informal but formal, open atmosphere that made our ideas and discussions come alive.
From genius hour I have taken away many messages and ideas that I am going to try my best to implement into my classroom. The first one is a safe environment that makes all students feel welcome and not out of place. This comes with treating equally by following my expectations, procedures, and consequences that I have set for my classroom. Another way to implement this safe learning environment is having the students feel they have a say. To do this is choose a unit, plan out the first week, make a list of ideas that can be covered and have the students choose what they want to learn about and ideas on how they want to learn it. Secondly, bringing in community experts. Taking students on field trips is getting harder and harder these days but with distance learning programs like the Elk Center has it makes those field trips come to the classroom. From my idea on business appearance and preparing students I want to find a class that I teach and bring in resume building and interviewing skills. We are training/teaching our students real world skills for careers so why not teach them how to obtain that job they have their mind set on.
For you as readers:
Where do you fit this into your classes?
How do you teach it and what do you relate it to?
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