Thanksgiving!!

Good Morning - Happy Tuesday!!  This Thursday is Thanksgiving.  What are your plans for the day?   Does your family have any special traditions?  How about the rest of your "long" weekend? Do you have any plans for the rest of the week with your extra days away from school?

While every year brings unique struggles and challenges to all of us, it is still amazing to think about everything we have to be thankful for!  Discuss a few things in your life that you are thankful for!!  Try to put forth some thought and really come up with something meaningful!

Thanks for your response.  After completing the post, please complete lesson 15.2 on Edutyping!

Quote of the Week

As you may know, last Friday was the 50th anniversary of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas. JFK was the 35th president of the United States and was well respected by Americans at the time. JFK once said:

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Explain this quote. What did JFK mean by it? What does it mean to you? Do you agree or disagree with a quote like this and how important is its meaning to you? Be thorough and thoughtful. After completing today's blog (5-6 sentences please), please complete through lesson 15.1 on Edutyping and email me (crubin@seq.org) a copy of your powerpoint presentation in PPT format!

CTE!?!?! What in the World is That?

Good Morning and Happy Friday!

On Thursday, December 5th, we will be going to Canada College in Redwood City to learn about their CTE Career Pathways.  For today's blog I would like you to respond to the following:

1.  Give as detailed a description as possible regarding what CTE is!
2.  Why do you think Career Technical Education is important and why has Menlo-Atherton High School and many districts around California made it a requirement for graduation?
3.  How do you feel like this type of education could help you personally?
4.  Finally, look up online a few different CTE pathways and list 3 that sound most interesting to you!

An Amazing Visit with Ms. Kleeman

Good Morning!!!  Block Day!  This past week we have been researching a variety of career options and we are just now starting to transition into looking at schools that might help us pursue the careers we are either interested in and/or that fit our interests well!  Yesterday was a perfect transition day as we had the opportunity to meet with Ms. Kleeman.  Today I would like to start off with you reflecting on our visit to Ms. Kleemans classroom with a "Thank You" blog.  Please write a Thank You to Ms. Kleeman as your blog post.  Your blog may include some of the following which discuss what you learned and how it benefited you:

• For her time
• For the specific things you learned
• For the things she motivated you to do moving forward
• For the various resources she offers to M-A students (be specific)

As you write this, keep in mind that Ms. Kleeman graduated from Harvard University, has worked at M-A since 1994, she is the reigning national typing champion (147 words per minute and 97% accuracy and she has helped thousands of students get into college, make their dreams come true and make their families proud!  What a lady!

Exploring Colleges and Careers

Good Morning and Happy Friday!!  This weekend is a 3 day weekend!  After all, Monday is Veteran's Day, a day to honor those who have served in the armed forces.  This week we spent a significant amount of time working with Naviance and exploring various career options that might appeal to you.  For today's blog, please respond to the following questions:

1.  What is your first impression of Naviance?  Do you like or dislike it?  Why?
2.  Do you think that Naviance could be helpful to you?  In what ways could it be helpful? 
3.  How did completing the career interests survey help you?
4.  Did looking through the various careers that might "fit" you based on the career interest survey make you think of other professions that might be of interest to you?  Why do you think that you had never thought of those as a career option before?

Thanks for your feedback ... and, hey, HAPPY FRIDAY!

Once you have finished the blog, please complete lesson 12.2 in Edutyping :)

A Day in the Guidance Classroom!

Hello, Happy Tuesday -

Yesterday you spent the class period with Ms. Escobar.  To be completely honest (and since she excused me early) I don't know what she covered with you during that time.  For your blog today please respond to the following:

1.  What was the purpose of the meeting with Ms. Escobar?
2.  Discuss a minimum of 2 topics that were discussed.
2.  What was one thing that was helpful and/or that you learned?
3.  What is one more thing that you would like and/or need to know as you move forward?

Thanks!  I look forward to learning more about your day in the Guidance office yesterday!

Mr. Rubin