The WOW Moment!

This week has been a great week for those and mind blowing moments that make you know that you have a purpose. This week in mechanics we have been focusing on constructing tool guages and than sharpening drill bits. My favorite moment was my interest approach to the unit. I took all their writing utensils away, gave them all a new pencil. However, some were sharpened and some were brand new and have never seen a pencil sharpener. I told them they had five minutes to write an essay on why tool were important. I had my cooperating teacher stand in front of the pencil sharpener and block it. Let's just say some were not happy with me especially after I told them this essay was graded.

However, once they got over that we dove right into drawing out tool gauges. This was a learning experience for my self that I had to learn ahead of time but it was all worth it. The best moment was today while sharpening I had a student yell, "Miss Keller I did it, high five!" That moment gave me a sense of purpose. This student sharpened a drill bit enough that it went through steel.

Now I will admit not everything this week went as planned. I had a little rough path with my into class because trying to teach about AET and getting profiles  set up did not go like it did when I went through it with the mechanics class. This class was in two speeds. Those who got it right away and those who not so much. So the students that got done had down time which cause minor class distraction. Also with my mechanics class I gave them their SAE unit quiz and the one question I expected them to all get almost everyone missed. Which was kind of upsetting but also showed that we needed to revisit.

I do want to mention how great of students I have. This kids are willing to try anything I put in front of them and if all goes well these agriscience research projects will show in time what I am talking about.

As for next week, in into to ag I will be introducing the agriscience projects guidelines, giving a unit one exam, and heading into unit two which is listen to me where we talk about all forms of communication. For the mechanics class we will be starting out woodworking unit. So this coming week we will be learning about wood selection, fasteners, calculating a bill of materials, and laying out projects and introducing their wood project.