Merced Adult School - the start of a new year

Principal's Thoughts

WOW!
I have been amazed at all that our staff gets accomplished at Merced Adult School!  Coming from a comprehensive high school, I was unaware of all of the great things happening here!  Thank you for everyone's positive attitude and help as I learn the ins and outs of MAS!!

Career and Technical Education......
We are entering an exciting time as we offer CTE opportunities for our students.  We offer certifications in Solar installation, Medical Assistant, and Office Assistant!  I am meeting with Merced College later this week to talk about articulating some of our courses.  This will allow our students to not only get great instruction from us, but also earn college credit while doing it......

The sky is the limit.....
Its exciting being part of the GAEN Consortium, as it will allow us to grow and think a bit larger!  Lets start thinking outside the box!

NEW TRANSITION SPECIALIST
Please help me welcome Maribel Palacios, our new Transition Specialist!  She will be housed in the front office!  Stop by and say hello!

August Events
23rd - 9:30 Nutrition Workshop Room 105
24th - 6:00-8:00 New Teacher Bootcamp Room 105
25th - 4:00-6:00 Staff Meeting Room 105
29th - "First Day of School"
30th  9:30- Nutrition Workshop Room 105
30-31st ASE Sign ups

Thank you for all you do!  

Steve

Blended Classrooms

We have entered an era of  technology in education.  Today's student is able to find information, through the internet, with a device they carry in their pockets.  Blended learning creates an opportunity to take advantage of this "new" tool  to enhance their education.  It allows them to tour the Whitehouse (https://goo.gl/f5GdQS),  collaborate with someone on the other side of the world (http://goo.gl/LwB38i) , or even find the cause of a disease (http://goo.gl/IifPhN).  All of this while sitting........well wherever they want to sit!

"We should watch students learn, they should not watch us teach".  A blended classroom allows teachers the opportunity to give information to students, and watch the students interact with that information.  Teachers become facilitators as they watch students collaborating with information, and increasing their knowledge.

"We should prepare students for their future, not for our past".  Giving students the opportunity to take control of their learning will also prepare them to be better employees.  Solving problems and collaborating with others gives our students a vehicle to use their individual talents in conjunction with the talents and personalities of others.  How many times do we go to work sit in rows and listen to someone talk all day? That is just not the world we live in.  We solve problems on a daily basis and when we develop a project or event, we collaborate with our colleagues.

 Technology has given us a tool that allows students to learn and collaborate outside of the classroom.  It allows students to go deeper, into a topic than we can ever take them in a "traditional" classroom.
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