Implementation+Plan

At the classroom level, I envision this research helping my practice holistically. Learning about specific alternative secondary school programs will allow me to steer struggling students towards educational pathways that match their capabilities, interests, strengths and needs. I will also broaden my definition of student success beyond post-secondary education to indeed include work placement, vocational training, apprenticeships and successful transition into adult living through the skills of alternative (non-credit) courses. Last, this research has reinforced how integral positive classroom communities are to student learning, in mainstream and alternative programs. In practice, this would mean having students speak confidentially to me about their struggles, academic or non-academic, and me finding accommodations to help them.
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At the school level, I hope to help re-define or‘re-culture’ definitions of secondary school student success. For some potential colleagues, I am sure that their definitions of success will be synonymous with post-secondary education because that is the pathway that they took. Like me, they will have to educate themselves and be educated about the many forms of secondary and post-secondary success for exceptional and non-exceptional students. I would also happily share my Wikispace on this topic with them. Clearly just knowing the plethora of student options is the first step and I hope to share this with my teacher colleagues. Together we can also learn about the intricacies of accessing provincial and local programs for students in our local board.
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At parental level, I will inform parents and guardians of the variety of ways students who struggle in a traditional educational setting, can attain their diploma such as through correspondence courses, E-learning, credit recovery, alternative high school and more. In terms of post-secondary options, I hope to validate student and parental choice by knowing and informing them of apprenticeship, vocational, work experience, supervised alternative learning and other programs.
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