First of all I would like to say that I enjoyed listen to that video. Ken Robinson was a funny guy. It was just not him up there talking about the topic of school and creative. He made it fun and enjoyable to watch. I agree with him, that, we don’t let kids be more creative. Kid’s minds are so creative and we don’t give them the chance to showcase it. We are too busy telling them to put there imagine away, and take out your text books. Do get me wrong the core classes are very important. I thing that we need to give them more time to let their minds be free and be creative.
I always hated it when you had an English class and the teacher told you what you had to write about. I didn’t like how it limited me to what I could write about. So I would write the paper on the topic the teacher picked. I would do well on it. I feel if I could have picked what I wanted to write about it would have been better, because it would have had more meaningful to me. That is a case of school not letting me use my creative side when it comes to writing. I understand that sometime you need to tell the students what to write about. You don’t need to tell them every time though.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Free write 3-coaching
When I was a sophomore up through my senior year I got the great honor to help coach one of my hometown youth hockey teams. It was a bantam A team. Bantams are mostly 7th and 8th graders. Sometimes you will have 9th grader if they meet the age requirement and don’t want to play high school hockey. I coached the team with my old bantam coach, and my older cousin. It was a great opportune for me to learn a better understanding of the game. It also gave me a chance to give back to youth program that helped me develop as a player and as a person. The big thing it taught me was responsibly. I learned that I had an obligation to these kids, their parents, and the other coaches. They were all counting on me to be there for games and practice, at the same time you have give a hundred and ten percent for every one, just like the players. I also had to give up my weekends and two nights a week for the seasons. I had to learn how to manage my time better than I did before I started coaching. On the week days I balanced school, my hockey practice, homework, and coaching. On the weekends I balanced homework, coaching, having a social life, and an occasional game of my own to play in.
My junior year was the best and most fun I had coaching. We had a great group of players that wanted to learn and improve their game. We played all the bigger programs around the state. When we played those bigger programs we would beat them or at the very least compete with them. When I say we played bigger programs it is like a division 3 team playing a division 1 or 2 team. We were the division 3 team. That same year we made it to state for bantam 3A. We went into that weekend feeling good. All the teams that were there we had already beaten. So we thought we would be a shoe in to play in the championship game. As anyone can tell you, when it comes to playoffs anything can happen, and that is exactly what happened. Our first game we played a team we had beaten three times. We ended up losing that game by one. After that game we had a chat with the kids and told them not to get down. “We still have one more game today, so let’s go out and play the game we know we can play.” So they went out later that day and won. We went on to play the next day for 5th place. We won and took home a 5th place finish. Not what we wanted, but it is what we got along with a great learning experience.
My junior year was the best and most fun I had coaching. We had a great group of players that wanted to learn and improve their game. We played all the bigger programs around the state. When we played those bigger programs we would beat them or at the very least compete with them. When I say we played bigger programs it is like a division 3 team playing a division 1 or 2 team. We were the division 3 team. That same year we made it to state for bantam 3A. We went into that weekend feeling good. All the teams that were there we had already beaten. So we thought we would be a shoe in to play in the championship game. As anyone can tell you, when it comes to playoffs anything can happen, and that is exactly what happened. Our first game we played a team we had beaten three times. We ended up losing that game by one. After that game we had a chat with the kids and told them not to get down. “We still have one more game today, so let’s go out and play the game we know we can play.” So they went out later that day and won. We went on to play the next day for 5th place. We won and took home a 5th place finish. Not what we wanted, but it is what we got along with a great learning experience.
Monday, March 1, 2010
T.E.D Prize
After watching the TED videos, it got me thinking what I would do to change the world. There are so many things that could be changed; pollution, natural resources running out, and poverty just to name a few of problems the world is facing. If I won the TED prize I would focus on the United States first. The US has a lot of their own problems that as a country need to fixed. The two main problems I would try to fix is the obesity problem that we are facing. Second, I would like to work on something to help the Hispanic learn English. There are many other problems that the US is facing, but these are the two I feel would make a big difference if solutions were found.
After watching the Jamie Oliver video I believe that obesity is a big problem that we have in the United States. I think that we need to start at young age educating people about healthy choices. Parents need to teach their kids to eat health from the get go. Once they are taught to eat healthy at home; we can keep it going by enforcing those habits in school. I don’t mean just at lunch but in the classrooms as well. We need to teach the youth how to take care of their bodies and provide them with the necessary nutrients. Teaching them how to cook the right foods would be a good start. I think that every school at some point should show the movie Super Size Me. It will make to you think twice about going to a fast food restaurant.
The second thing I would do is try to find away to help the Hispanic population that doesn’t speech English to learn how to speak English. I say this because for two summers I work in a factory where 90 percent of the employees were Hispanic. Out of those 90 percent, only about 10 percent of those could speak English well. It was so hard to work with people that I could not understand. This made it hard for the production line to get the product out efficiently. I think that companies or the government need to do something to help get everyone on the same page.
After watching the Jamie Oliver video I believe that obesity is a big problem that we have in the United States. I think that we need to start at young age educating people about healthy choices. Parents need to teach their kids to eat health from the get go. Once they are taught to eat healthy at home; we can keep it going by enforcing those habits in school. I don’t mean just at lunch but in the classrooms as well. We need to teach the youth how to take care of their bodies and provide them with the necessary nutrients. Teaching them how to cook the right foods would be a good start. I think that every school at some point should show the movie Super Size Me. It will make to you think twice about going to a fast food restaurant.
The second thing I would do is try to find away to help the Hispanic population that doesn’t speech English to learn how to speak English. I say this because for two summers I work in a factory where 90 percent of the employees were Hispanic. Out of those 90 percent, only about 10 percent of those could speak English well. It was so hard to work with people that I could not understand. This made it hard for the production line to get the product out efficiently. I think that companies or the government need to do something to help get everyone on the same page.
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