Connecting my Internship experience to my curriculum.

 

My summer internship proved to me time and time again that all of the subject areas that are taught in school, show up everyday in the workforce.  Everyday that I was at National Spinning, I saw the importance of math because I saw purchase orders in which customers wanted certain number of pounds and color of a yarn.  I also saw spreadsheets of the performance of every worker on the previous shift and how many pounds they produced in the 12 hour shift.  This whole plant relies on data to ensure they are producing yarn and making money off of what they produce.  I plan on incorporating more of the other subjects in my ELA curriculum.  The product that I am working on ties in with the CTE teacher and we have begun collaborating on what I would like for her to do in her classroom that will prepare my students for the product that they will produce in my classroom.

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  1. That is a great idea about collaborating with the CTE teacher. I know that I could do that as well to help my students to connect the math we are doing in class to all of the spreadsheets and data analysis capable within spreadsheets.

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