C4T#2

Mrs.Millers' blog post titled The HSC Arrives, talks about how fast a students senior year moves for them, and raises the question how prepared are they to begin their college years? Mrs. Miller brings up the fact that 30% of freshmen college students will either drop out or change their college courses to another degree all together. Mrs.Miller knows that their are many factors that goes into deciding on whether to go to college or not, such as maybe their families aren't supportive, they may not have enough money to go to college, or they may have to work and go to school, and just choose work over school because they need the money now. And after reading her wonderful post, the comment I left was, "This post brought back so many memories from my senior year in high school. All of the note taking, and essays, and tests can get to be a bit overwhelming, and calling it a train ride, is the nice way of putting it.The questions you have raised are questions that I often find myself asking even now, and I am in my Junior year at the Univ. of South Ala. I think there should be a class that seniors take in high school, that will better prepare them for their college years. I know I wish I would have someone to tell me the things I had to figure out on my own. This was a very good read!"

Adobe Education Leaders Summit is the title of Mrs.Millers Blog Post. This post is a summary of Mrs.Millers thoughts on the Adobe Summit that she attended for the past three days. Mrs. Miller has gathered tons of new information, networked with new people, and also shared a bit of the information that she knows with fellow co-workers. At the Summit Mrs.Miller had the opportunity to see new software that has not yet been released, which gave her plenty of time to plan how she could use the software in her curriculum. While there Mrs. Miller had a chance to meet some very dedicated teachers who taught in remote rural schools to at risk students, which inspired her to keep doing what she is doing in her classroom because it does make a difference. Mrs. Miller believes that it doesn't matter what the tool is that you teach students with, but rather does the tool aid the learning. At the end of the summit Mrs. Miller stated that we need these four C's to have better schools which produce better students: 1)Creativity 2)Connections 3)Collaborate 4)Communication. With these four C's schools are destined for success. Mrs. Miller now feels as if she has the perfect tools to help her grow as a teacher, and to help her better teach her students.