Well professional assumptions are easy to start with...professionally I expect the students I receive to have been taught the previous information required so we can continue in their currere through there educational experiences. Personally, I assume at least 50% do not remember a thing from the previous year because they had no concrete connection to the material therefore it was not placed into their autobiography in the subject of science. Reflecting back I need to do a better job on drawing in the students experiences within their own lives to try and make that permanent entry into their autobiography. Professionally, I also sometime see the materials I use as more effective then some of the other strategies available, but just this week I was sent a you tube video demonstrating plate tectonic. Normally in the past I would have moved on from this idea due to time constraints within the classroom; however, I am going to have the students complete the experiment, even though it may make a mess with all the coco, because it will give them a tangible experience on a concept that has remained very abstract in the past. Therefore I guess my paradigm needs to shift to better reach the student of today. The race cannot be run, let alone won, if the main participants are sitting on the sideline saying, "They haven't even recognized that I cannot even see a connection between these school subjects and myself, so why even try."
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