End of EDC 533

In this course, I thought that the book was a well chosen book and I feel like I learned from it.  I really liked the "Habits of Mind" and I plan to share them with my students to help them to choose to be better learners in the 21st century.  As for this blog, I would like to continue to use it in a professional development light in the future, and I'm positive that I'll return to it occasionally (especially since it is linked to my Google account).  I think that the biggest enemy to my continued use of this blog is the enemy that plagues us all: TIME.

Week 6: Post 1

In reviewing chapters one through four of Heidi Hayes Jacob's Curriculum 21, I have come up with one overarching key idea that Ms. Jacobs is trying to tell us.  Education now and in the coming years will be very different than it was in the past.  In chapter one, she discusses the past of education and changes that need to be made regarding structure and types of education.  In chapter two, she discusses assessment types and changes that need to be made in that area.  In chapter three, she offers changes in content areas.  In chapter four, she discusses forms of school and how changes need to happen in that area.

It's not necessarily a change for us at Penobscot Job Corps, but different forms of education definitely fits in with what we do.  Our students are in a vocational program that is very individualized so that it works for each student.  We have a different form of education than the public schools, and for many of our students the new form works.