Man. High school is scary.
The performance of students within these next four years will not only directly impact the outcome of our early adult years, but will also kinda just follow us around for the rest of our lives.
Man. High school is scary.
But within the high point of the "chaos" that is the first week of school an angel rose from the ashes, and he was all like, SWOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHH and then he was like;
"Y'all are in good hands now!"
and then he armed the us with a weapon so powerful that it could literally change the world.
THE PROPER LEARNING PROCESS.
MISTAKE.LEARN.GROW
He expressed that mistakes, if learned from, were a good thing. They were a learning utility. And by learning from mistakes we would grow and were instantly bettered because of it. (Find out a little more about Mr. Ko's thoughts on the learning process here.)
I unconsciously applied this learning process a little later in the month. In Mike Strong's Humanities class we were tasked with creating some graphic art inspired by a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature. My partner Jack and I whipped up some images and emailed them to Mike. About a week later we opened our grade books to find that we had both received zeroes for the work. We had done the work, and we received zeroes?
BLASPHEMY!
We brought our concern to Mike. He told us that he hadn't received the work. Jack and I were like,
Is this guy crazy or something? We have proof that we submitted the work in our inboxes!
We showed Mike the email that we had sent with the work we had attached along with a time stamp to prove that we had submitted the work on time. He told us that we had submitted our work the wrong way. We had to insert the images on Google Classroom, and turn them in from there along with a comment about the work. Thank God he had told us this. All of the teachers this year were using Google Classroom to look at and grade the work done by students digitally.
Because Jack and I screwed up with how we had submitted our work, we learned something HUGE that saved us a lot of stress in the future. We learned that we had to submit our work on Google Classroom, we had learned how to submit our work on the Google Classroom, and we learned that this was the ONLY acceptable way to submit our digital work.
We made a slight mistake, and learned something huge because of it, and we are better because of it.
The performance of students within these next four years will not only directly impact the outcome of our early adult years, but will also kinda just follow us around for the rest of our lives.
Man. High school is scary.
But within the high point of the "chaos" that is the first week of school an angel rose from the ashes, and he was all like, SWOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHH and then he was like;
"Y'all are in good hands now!"
and then he armed the us with a weapon so powerful that it could literally change the world.
THE PROPER LEARNING PROCESS.
MISTAKE.LEARN.GROW
He expressed that mistakes, if learned from, were a good thing. They were a learning utility. And by learning from mistakes we would grow and were instantly bettered because of it. (Find out a little more about Mr. Ko's thoughts on the learning process here.)
I unconsciously applied this learning process a little later in the month. In Mike Strong's Humanities class we were tasked with creating some graphic art inspired by a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature. My partner Jack and I whipped up some images and emailed them to Mike. About a week later we opened our grade books to find that we had both received zeroes for the work. We had done the work, and we received zeroes?
BLASPHEMY!
We brought our concern to Mike. He told us that he hadn't received the work. Jack and I were like,
Is this guy crazy or something? We have proof that we submitted the work in our inboxes!
We showed Mike the email that we had sent with the work we had attached along with a time stamp to prove that we had submitted the work on time. He told us that we had submitted our work the wrong way. We had to insert the images on Google Classroom, and turn them in from there along with a comment about the work. Thank God he had told us this. All of the teachers this year were using Google Classroom to look at and grade the work done by students digitally.
Because Jack and I screwed up with how we had submitted our work, we learned something HUGE that saved us a lot of stress in the future. We learned that we had to submit our work on Google Classroom, we had learned how to submit our work on the Google Classroom, and we learned that this was the ONLY acceptable way to submit our digital work.
We made a slight mistake, and learned something huge because of it, and we are better because of it.