Learning Goal: Students will practice their skills of analyzing by examining how schools prepare their students for success.
Your Life: Present and Future
In order to figure out how schools help students succeed in their futures, lets consider what your daily life looks like. Please tell me what a day in your life looks like right now. Consider how much time you spend:
Doing homework?
Playing video games?
Watching TV, Netflix, or Hulu?
On the internet?
Working on your hobbies or side projects?
Doing chores?
On Facebook and/or Twitter?
Reading books for school?
Reading for your own enjoyment?
How many times do you use Google in a day to look something up?
Doing extracurricular activities (sports, clubs)?
Sleep?
Texting? or Snapchatting?
On your phone?
On two screens at once (TV + phone or TV + computer)
E-mailing?
Socializing with friends?
Next, I would like you to consider what a future version of yourself will do, once you are a successful adult.
What do you think it takes to be a successful adult? What does a successful adult do? What do they look like? What do you think defines a successful adult?
After our short conversation, I would like you to take a few minutes to brainstorm some skills you think all successful adults need to have. Please work alone to do this. You may use your own observations, experience, as well as resources on the internet to do this activity.
How Do Schools Connect These Two Lists?
Now that we have our two lists, we are going to use the steps of analyzing (Identifying the Parts, Asking Questions, and Putting the Parts Together) to look at how the following schools help students succeed.