In What you need to know when you’re done with high school from Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? by Scott, he states he was challenged,
“to identify the Top Ten Things Every Graduating High School Student Know or Understand.”
I thought this would be a great exercise in thinking about what I would want my special education students to know when they graduated. Here is my list.
1. Know where to go for information or help.
2. Know that it is okay to say “I don’t know” without feeling stupid or inadequate.
3. Find something you love to do and fit it into your career. It helps if you love what you are doing.
4. If you never try, you will never succeed at anything. You might stumble along the way but that is normal.
5. Your interests may change over the years and that is okay. You can enjoy doing different things and at times, you might like one activity more than another.
6. Develop a support system.
7. Learning is a life time activity and that when you graduate, the learning doesn’t end.
8. You will make mistakes but do not let them take over your life. Mistakes are not what make you the person you are but it is how you deal with these mistakes that make you stronger. Your actions show others what kind of person you are.
9. Be honest. Integrity is important. Once you lose it, it is almost impossible to ever get back. People trust those with integrity. Once you lose that trust, it is like a glass that is broken and never can be put back the way it was.
10. Most of all, believe in yourself
What would you want your students to know?
Original image: 'LuMaxArt Graduation Concept'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22177648@N06/2137729748 by: Scott Maxwell
Posted on the Successful Teaching Blog by loonyhiker (successfulteaching at gmail dot com).
1 comment:
I appreciate your list...and your blog! I would also want them to know that they bring something valuable & important to contribute--probably many things. I'm also an instructor for future teachers, at a community college.
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