Welding, Science, and GRIT...Three Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Learners
#8 | 26 January 2016
"Scientists have become the bearers of the torch
of discovery in our quest for knowledge."
-- Stephen Hawking
Learning in Action: CHS Students Develop Career-Ready Skills
by Amber Stagner
CHS Senior / Staff Writer
Zack Bottoms and Jonathan Rakes are two CHS juniors who regularly participate in welding. Welding, the joining together of metals by application of heat, is both an equally impressive and fascinating craft. These students have the opportunity to learn and practice the art of welding along with many other students who share the same interests.
Welding is actually becoming more and more advanced as time progresses. It is, in a lot of ways, more important than it ever has been before. Consequently, there are also many job opportunities in the field, which makes welding an incredible opportunity for these high school students. Not only do they get hands on experience with something they're interested in, but welding is surrounded by job opportunities, making this experience incredibly valuable for the students and the industry. Jonathan Rakes notes: "Welding is beneficial to me because it helps to build a future for me...I would like to use these skills for a career in underwater welding because it pays good and it would be a good way to travel the world."
Welding has broadened the horizon for lifelong learners here at CHS. Career opportunities are affluent in the welding field. It is also a highly admirable craft for anyone to master, certainly so for these high school students. The dangers that accompany welding are great in number, but with the proper supervision and instruction, the benefits could potentially last a lifetime, as Zack Bottoms tells us that his class "doesn't only teach me a skill I want to know, it teaches me how to work in general."
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CHS Senior / Staff Writer
Zack Bottoms and Jonathan Rakes are two CHS juniors who regularly participate in welding. Welding, the joining together of metals by application of heat, is both an equally impressive and fascinating craft. These students have the opportunity to learn and practice the art of welding along with many other students who share the same interests.
Welding is actually becoming more and more advanced as time progresses. It is, in a lot of ways, more important than it ever has been before. Consequently, there are also many job opportunities in the field, which makes welding an incredible opportunity for these high school students. Not only do they get hands on experience with something they're interested in, but welding is surrounded by job opportunities, making this experience incredibly valuable for the students and the industry. Jonathan Rakes notes: "Welding is beneficial to me because it helps to build a future for me...I would like to use these skills for a career in underwater welding because it pays good and it would be a good way to travel the world."
Welding has broadened the horizon for lifelong learners here at CHS. Career opportunities are affluent in the welding field. It is also a highly admirable craft for anyone to master, certainly so for these high school students. The dangers that accompany welding are great in number, but with the proper supervision and instruction, the benefits could potentially last a lifetime, as Zack Bottoms tells us that his class "doesn't only teach me a skill I want to know, it teaches me how to work in general."
| Click here to learn more about Green County ATC.
Focus on Best Practices: Learning in the 21st Century
"How I Teach Kids to Love Science"
"At the Harbour School in Hong Kong, TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada teaches citizen science and invention to the next generation of environmentalists. He's moved his classroom into an industrial mega-space where imaginative kids work with wood, metal, chemistry, biology, optics and, occasionally, power tools to create solutions to the threats facing the world's oceans. There, he instills a universal lesson that his own parents taught him at a young age: 'You can make a mess, but you have to clean up after yourself.'" (TED.com)
| Watch the video below, or click here to visit the Ted Talk website.
"At the Harbour School in Hong Kong, TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada teaches citizen science and invention to the next generation of environmentalists. He's moved his classroom into an industrial mega-space where imaginative kids work with wood, metal, chemistry, biology, optics and, occasionally, power tools to create solutions to the threats facing the world's oceans. There, he instills a universal lesson that his own parents taught him at a young age: 'You can make a mess, but you have to clean up after yourself.'" (TED.com)
| Watch the video below, or click here to visit the Ted Talk website.
One Big Idea: The Key to Success? GRIT
"Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of 'grit' as a predictor of success." (TED.com).
| Watch the video below, or click here to visit the Ted Talk website.
| Watch the video below, or click here to visit the Ted Talk website.
Spotlight on Resources: Classroom Tools
EdmodoJoin the CIS Personalized Learning community and see how Edmodo can enhance your classroom. Request the code to join the group, if necessary.
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GrammarlyGrammarly corrects over 250 types of grammatical mistakes, while also catching contextual spelling errors and poor vocabulary usage in documents and online.
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Google TranslateGoogle Translate is a very useful tool to use when teachers have ESL learners in their classroom. Translate words, phrases, websites, and full documents.
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