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A
Break From the Ordinary Wendy
Bruch, an English teacher at Glidden High School in Wisconsin, likes to use Student
Paths on a Friday to give her students a break from the regular classroom
materials during the week. "We
use it with the sophomores, juniors and seniors and I go through the scholarships
and college exploration, while also giving students some insight into what it
was like for me," she said. "It works well because it is very informative and
the students think it is fun. It goes over great." Prepping
for Writing Tests Lynn
O'Brien, a counselor at Sibley East High School in Minnesota, uses Student
Paths in her English classes. "The
sophomore English class is given the assignment of reading the articles and writing
a summary about one of them," she said. "Not only does this give the students
an opportunity to think about their post-secondary options, it also helps students
prepare for the Basic Standards Test in writing. A
Warm Up Dave
Ellefson, a counselor at Hutchinson High School in Minnesota, uses Student
Paths in many different ways depending on the time of year. He uses it as
a "warm up" in presentations to complement similar materials or topics he is covering.
"We'll use
it in our economics and investing classes when we talk about planning for your
future or budgeting your life," he said. "I'll also use it when I go in to classes
and talk about schools or scholarships or for freshmen planning. Just last issue,
I had a student who was a big chess player and I told him to make sure to check
out Wacky Scholarships for the Chess scholarship."
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