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No matter how old you are, change can be stressful. Adjusting to new ideas often begins with resistance and before confidence in its worthiness is achieved, there is often anxiety and frustration. But in the end, change is growth.
Aspen Heights Elementary School is located in Red Deer, Alberta, a town found halfway between the cities Edmonton and Calgary, right in the middle of Canada 's oil country. The school is located in a low income area and many of the children are from single parent households. Many teachers at Aspen Heights, such as Milt Williams, Allan Baile, Deb Shelton, and Melisa McIntosh, found that keeping the kids motivated and engaged was an ongoing challenge. They 're all great kids, but they lacked focus …show more content…
The teachers had read about Microsociety and the great changes other schools had seen in their educational environment. The four named themselves the Micro Committee and began setting the stage for change at Aspen Heights.
The Microsociety began a grassroots campaign to convince the other teachers at Aspen Heights about the potential benefits of the Microsociety system. Soon the classrooms were abuzz with ideas and plans for a Microsociety in Aspen Heights Elementary School. The teachers agreed that implementing Microsociety could help them increase the student 's motivation and drive to succeed. After a few weeks of discussion among the teachers, who all wanted to do the best thing possible for their students, it was time to take their program to the administration. The Micro Committee knew there would be some push back, because there is always resistance to change and new ideas, but they made a presentation for the administrators and planned to answer any and all …show more content…
This knowledge of real world concepts is exciting for the students to learn because it is what is actually happening in the day to day operations of all kinds of organizations.
Kids Teaching other Kids
At Aspen Heights Elementary, students are taught to take initiative and actively seek creative solutions to problems. One story that truly illustrates the creativity and practicality of the Aspen Heights students are the series of instructional Youtube videos, created to help students with paperwork at the Micro Bank .
For some time, employees at the Micro Bank were complaining about how students were not filling out checks properly. This was causing problems when it came to processing payments and made the jobs of the bank employees more difficult. The bank employees reports went to the Members of Parliament at Aspen Heights and they in turn went back to all the classrooms to tell them about the issue and reteach the students to fill out the checks properly.
But filling out checks continued to be an issue, so Members of Parliament concluded that they needed a better solution. The MPs and teachers got together to brainstorm a new
No matter how old you are, change can be stressful. Adjusting to new ideas often begins with resistance and before confidence in its worthiness is achieved, there is often anxiety and frustration. But in the end, change is growth.
Aspen Heights Elementary School is located in Red Deer, Alberta, a town found halfway between the cities Edmonton and Calgary, right in the middle of Canada 's oil country. The school is located in a low income area and many of the children are from single parent households. Many teachers at Aspen Heights, such as Milt Williams, Allan Baile, Deb Shelton, and Melisa McIntosh, found that keeping the kids motivated and engaged was an ongoing challenge. They 're all great kids, but they lacked focus …show more content…
The teachers had read about Microsociety and the great changes other schools had seen in their educational environment. The four named themselves the Micro Committee and began setting the stage for change at Aspen Heights.
The Microsociety began a grassroots campaign to convince the other teachers at Aspen Heights about the potential benefits of the Microsociety system. Soon the classrooms were abuzz with ideas and plans for a Microsociety in Aspen Heights Elementary School. The teachers agreed that implementing Microsociety could help them increase the student 's motivation and drive to succeed. After a few weeks of discussion among the teachers, who all wanted to do the best thing possible for their students, it was time to take their program to the administration. The Micro Committee knew there would be some push back, because there is always resistance to change and new ideas, but they made a presentation for the administrators and planned to answer any and all …show more content…
This knowledge of real world concepts is exciting for the students to learn because it is what is actually happening in the day to day operations of all kinds of organizations.
Kids Teaching other Kids
At Aspen Heights Elementary, students are taught to take initiative and actively seek creative solutions to problems. One story that truly illustrates the creativity and practicality of the Aspen Heights students are the series of instructional Youtube videos, created to help students with paperwork at the Micro Bank .
For some time, employees at the Micro Bank were complaining about how students were not filling out checks properly. This was causing problems when it came to processing payments and made the jobs of the bank employees more difficult. The bank employees reports went to the Members of Parliament at Aspen Heights and they in turn went back to all the classrooms to tell them about the issue and reteach the students to fill out the checks properly.
But filling out checks continued to be an issue, so Members of Parliament concluded that they needed a better solution. The MPs and teachers got together to brainstorm a new