Success Now and In the Future
This week, we just wanted to share a couple of brief articles instead of resources and our video. We came across these two articles and thought they aligned nicely with the work we do in Postsecondary Transition Planning. Check them out and see if they align with our work.
- The opening of this article is really powerful when it talks about us as adults, needing to be intentional in providing our students with evidence of early success in their work. This will allow the students to build confidence that they can be successful in the future. To do this the article gives us some suggestions; scaffold assessment sequences, tier assessments, and feedback portfolios. The article describes each of these suggestions in more detail. The article reinforces the point that if we can help our students experience success, and then support them as they learn, it will encourage lifelong learners, which is our goal.
- This article aligns so well with the article above. The above article taught us how to help students be lifelong learners. Now, in this article, we learn why it is so important to be lifelong learners. Sometimes we forget that a student's first job after graduation will likely not be their last job. As we see in this article, Amazon seeks to upskill its workers to meet the needs of its company. If our students are not lifelong learners, then these upskilling efforts will fall flat. As you will see in the article, upskilling is good for the company but also for the employees as they can earn more money and more benefits. With that being said, we can now see how important it is that we encourage lifelong learning by letting our students experience success and then supporting them as they tackle more complex tasks.