Hello and welcome back!
We continued with the future planning portion of our curriculum this week.
The whole week was focused around interview skills because there will be a lot of interviews and auditions in life and students need to be prepared to handle those stressful situations.
Students learned about some interview skills such as eye contact, a solid handshake, voice control and how to answer a question completely. For the activity portion, I had students create a script of what a good job interview would look like and what a poor job interview would look like. After they wrote their scripts, I had them choose and perform in front of the class either the good interview or the poor interview. They had a lot of fun with the skits, most chose the poor interview in order to be funny, but the joke was on them because it still showed others what not to do and if students know what not to do, that's a great start on figuring out what to do!
Sorry there are no photos for this week! But come back next week (THE LAST WEEK BEFORE SPRING BREAK!!)
Monday, March 20, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
Ranum Week 27
Hello!
This past week was all about finance. We started by playing the stock market game. Each pair is given $2,000 to spend however they wish on the stock market. They can purchase any amount of shares of any company they are interested in. I had them choose a minimum of 3 companies for diversification reasons. We will check back in a month and at the end of the year to see who's stocks grew by the most. Students had a lot of fun with this and were excited about investing in the future.
We also worked on budgeting and how to keep a budget. This was a little tricky since most students do not really make an income but I gave them imaginary careers and it was their job to figure out how much they could spend on housing, a car, leisure items, etc.
On Friday we played the game of Life because it was a good wrap up of everything we learned this week. Students had a lot of fun with it not just as a board game but they viewed it now as their potential future so they had to be smarter with their money and life choices.
This past week was all about finance. We started by playing the stock market game. Each pair is given $2,000 to spend however they wish on the stock market. They can purchase any amount of shares of any company they are interested in. I had them choose a minimum of 3 companies for diversification reasons. We will check back in a month and at the end of the year to see who's stocks grew by the most. Students had a lot of fun with this and were excited about investing in the future.
We also worked on budgeting and how to keep a budget. This was a little tricky since most students do not really make an income but I gave them imaginary careers and it was their job to figure out how much they could spend on housing, a car, leisure items, etc.
On Friday we played the game of Life because it was a good wrap up of everything we learned this week. Students had a lot of fun with it not just as a board game but they viewed it now as their potential future so they had to be smarter with their money and life choices.
Another great week in the books!
Monday, March 6, 2017
Ranum Week 26
Hello and welcome back to the YESS program at Ranum Middle School blog!
This past week started off with mentor Monday and I had students present their leaders in history. They created a slideshow talking about a leader they admired and what made that person a great leader. Overall, the presents went well, the students do need to work on eye contact and not putting blocks of text/reading straight off the powerpoint but they are definitely improving!
Tutoring Tuesday went well. I printed off some new worksheets and found a math worksheet they were currently working on so students were happy to get the extra help there.
Wednesday and Thursday was all about wealth and what it means. We watched some short videos about wealth inequality here in America and globally around the world. We also saw a video on what it means to be a minimalist and how it effected some peoples lives for the good. These videos brought about great conversations of material wealth and how that is spread throughout the world. After the discussion, I had students talk about what they value besides money and how they value money depending on their moods (ex. Good/happy mood could equal donating money/giving to a friend).
Friday we did a team builder called spaghetti towers. It's like the marshmallow challenge but I do not require students to just have a structure that supports 1 marshmallow at the end. I give them just spaghetti and mini marshmallows and have them build the highest tower possible. It was great seeing students work together and collaborate. Here are some pictures:
Another great week in the books!
This past week started off with mentor Monday and I had students present their leaders in history. They created a slideshow talking about a leader they admired and what made that person a great leader. Overall, the presents went well, the students do need to work on eye contact and not putting blocks of text/reading straight off the powerpoint but they are definitely improving!
Tutoring Tuesday went well. I printed off some new worksheets and found a math worksheet they were currently working on so students were happy to get the extra help there.
Wednesday and Thursday was all about wealth and what it means. We watched some short videos about wealth inequality here in America and globally around the world. We also saw a video on what it means to be a minimalist and how it effected some peoples lives for the good. These videos brought about great conversations of material wealth and how that is spread throughout the world. After the discussion, I had students talk about what they value besides money and how they value money depending on their moods (ex. Good/happy mood could equal donating money/giving to a friend).
Friday we did a team builder called spaghetti towers. It's like the marshmallow challenge but I do not require students to just have a structure that supports 1 marshmallow at the end. I give them just spaghetti and mini marshmallows and have them build the highest tower possible. It was great seeing students work together and collaborate. Here are some pictures:
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