Working Towards the Future

Students will often wonder to themselves how they are going to use their schoolwork outside of the classroom later on in life. It is much easier to apply activities to the "real-world" in the Agricultural Education through activities ranging anywhere from greenhouse work to tearing apart a small gas engine.

Incorporating problem solving into our curriculum will help students in developing many needed skills that will benefit them after the bell rings. Problem solving can be used as a group or individual project, and our students can be as creative as they want.

According to one of the articles that we read, "Principles for Teaching Problem Solving" explained that there are many students who struggle and fail in literacy in their own school programs. Using problem solving techniques in the classroom will help benefit our students as it will affect them outside of school. The article stated that grown adults tend to struggle with basic skills such as determining the correct amount of change from an information menu.

It is sad that we have grown adults struggling in simple skills that they need to survive the"real-world". If they were only given the necessary tools, and proper teaching techniques through problem solving, they would have no problem counting the change out of a register.

So what did I get out of our readings? Use a variety of different problem solving techniques that requires the students to think through multiple ways of how these problems can be solved.

Here is an article that I feel really explain what problem solving is, and how it works for the students and the teachers.