Week 5: How can your business (or others) be more involved in your classroom? What can you or your school do to engage students with the real world? What can the real world (our externship hosts) do to engage students in their world?
There are many more ways Allen and other businesses can be involved in my classroom than I ever expected! It just involves a little extra time and making connections.
Jeff Weld invited me to a workforce meeting about a month ago which was very interesting and informative for me since I did not know that Cedar Falls has a program where they place students in the work world. While at this meeting I also met Kristin Wentworth, which it turns out she is the Executive Director of the Area Health Education Center at Allen! We were both surprised to find that there was someone in the same building with the same goals and didn't even know it! I met with Kristin and turns out she has been to my school twice already in the past. I think I may call Kristin to come in sometime this next year since until this externship I had no idea that there were so many people involved in the hospital. Just like most people I thought that a hospital basically just had doctors, nurses, and receptionists. Turns out they are only a fraction of how many people are actually employed by the hospital. I think it would be good to have Kristin come in and show the students all the different jobs there are in a hospital.
I can involve business hosts in my classroom more by connecting with people like Kristin and having them come into my classroom. Or I can take my students to visit them at the worksite, this past year a few of my pre-calc students were invited through me by an email invite from Rockwell Collins. I thought it was great that they emailed me, I hope other businesses start to do this also.
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