How can I as a student body officer help others to make good choices?

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All of my student government kids are killing me!!!

hello everyone

You never know when someone

May catch a dream from you,

You never know when a little word

Or something you may do

May open up the windows

Of a mind that seeks the light,

The way you live may not matter at all

But you never know—it might.

And just in case it could be

That another’s life, through you,

Might change for the better,

With a broader and bright view,

It seems it might be worth a try

At pointing the way to what’s right,

Of course, it may not matter at all.

But then again– it might.

OK so I have taken an old blog and tried to transform it into a BLOG for the Kahuku High and Intermediate masses. Hopefully this works. To start off my blog I want to share a video that we received in a training about two years ago. I am not sure where it came from, but I think it is something that all people could benefit from. I hope you "like" it and please feel free to comment.

We always feel better throughout the day when we have someone there to say "good job" or "I think you are great!!!" Positive vibes are always the way to go and I have a lot to learn from that lesson. There is way too much negativity in the world and by adding to it we only make the world weaker!!

Testing is the only assessment?

So my assignment for this weeks blog is:

Reflect on the idea that tests are the only objective assessments of student learning.

I have 4 children. Every day is a learning experience with them. They are all different ages and I have two boys and two girls. They have different styles of reading and writing because they all learn from different teachers. My 5 year old just finished her Preschool career and will now be entering Kindergarten with my other two who are older than here. I am pretty sure she knows way more than they did when they went to Kindergarten because she went to a different Preschool than they did and she learned a lot more than they did before they started school. I am sure that there will be students that are at her same level and there will probably be some that are higher, but most of them will be lower I am sure because they did not attend preschool. 

With that being said I am sure that they will have to test all of the kids differently according to what they know. I know some of the teachers specialize in helping those kids that have never gone to school before and I know there are others that work with the kids that know what they are doing already. As a teacher I know that there are many different ways to figure out is students know what we are learning. Some of them do well taking tests, some do well giving presentations, some do better doing a project, but all of them show that they know the material in some way. 

I do not think that tests are the only way to see if kids know their stuff or not. I think that since the whole world is different that there is probably more ways to accomplish the same goal and sitting taking a test is not the only way.

I found this funny video that I thought would be fun to do with your students to help them learn their testing materials.

Funny Test Video