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Technology Education 6th and 7th/8th Grade Year Courses |
What is Technology Education about?
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| The Safety and Class Guidelines | Photos of the Lab and more | Various Related Links |
| The Technology Contract | Mr. Scrudder's Schedule | Required Materials |
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Units of Study |
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Randy Scrudder is the Technology Education teacher, and his email address is scrudderr@cfbisd.edu.
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Spring Semester, May 2009 |
Latest News: 26 Oct 2009: They say
"Time flies when you're having fun." If that's true, then all of my classes are
having the best time ever.
It's hard to believe that we're starting the second nine weeks grading period today. Can you believe we're 1/4 of the way through this school year already? In the past nine weeks we've completed 1) Safety, 2) Drafting, 3) the Introduction Unit, and 4) the "2nd" rotation unit on the computers. Today we're starting up Rotation #3. The students are each going to a new computer work station, learning about a different technology subject, and working with a different person/partner at that computer.
The long range plan for the next six weeks is to finish this rotation, construct Mag Lev vehicles, then work on Rotation #4. Looking at the calendar, we should finish Rotation #3 by November the 6th. We will start the Mag Lev unit on November the 9th and end it on the 20th, just before we leave out for Thanksgiving Break. When we return from Thanksgiving on the 30th, we will begin Rotation #4, and we should finish it by December the 11th. This will put us VERY close to the Christmas holiday.
Need more details about what we're doing? Please feel free to email me at
scrudderr@cfbisd.edu. Talk to you
soon.
News: 2 Sep 2009: Wow! The first week of school went great, and here we are in the middle of the 2nd week of the school year. Almost all of my students are ready for the Safety Unit Test tomorrow, so we're doing just a bit more review today.
I found out just a couple days ago that this coming Monday, Sep 7th, is listed as a district holiday (you can check out the district calendars by clicking here), so we will be starting our first activity filled unit of study on Tuesday the 8th. We will be learning about Drafting, also known as technical drawing.
Oh, one more thing. We're having a couple Open
House events, one on Thursday the 10th for all 6th graders' parents, and the
other is the 14th for all 7th and 8th graders' parents. Hope to see you all at
one of them, I will be attending both. See you then
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News: 26 Aug 2009: Well, we just finished Camp Panther yesterday, and are starting on our first unit of study, Safety. Some students are already getting underway by checking out the information here on my teacher web site. Anyone looking at information on my teacher web site will have an advantage in class, simply because they will know ahead of time what we're doing.
The first assignment we are doing in class today is to hand copy the Safety and Class Guidelines, word for word. Some people question why we should do this, but there's really a simple reason... I want all my students to know these guidelines, to practice them, and to live them. Safety is very important, at home, at work, and especially here at school. We will be learning how to conduct ourselves in an everyday type workplace, so we need to start with the basics. I have personal experiences to share for every single safety and class guideline, which unfortunately for me is a definite reason to have each one of them listed. My expectations are that the student write them all down and know them, so that each student will not repeat but rather will learn from my mistakes. That's why I have my students hand copy the guidelines.
Oh, and before I forget, we will have a test over them some time late next week, probably on Thursday. More to come later.
News: 13 Aug2009: I'm in training this week, learning about some technology that's new to the teachers of CFBISD. It looks like there's plenty of new stuff out there that we will be able to use in the classroom this year.
Less than two weeks to go, The first day of school is getting closer. Are you ready for it? In an odd way, I can say that I'm not ready for it, but am looking forward to it.
On the one hand, I haven't done everything I wanted to do this past summer. I have gotten a lot done, gone on a few of the trips that I wanted to go on, seen some of the sites that I wanted to, and spent time with some of the people that I wanted to spend time with. I guess you could say that either 1) I planned to do too much over the past couple months, or 2) that there wasn't enough summer to do all the stuff I wanted to do.
On the other hand, there's a serious
excitement in the air for this school year. New people on campus, new ideas, new
innovations. I can hardly wait to see how the school year unfolds before us.
It's going to be awesome
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For those of you that want to read my past blog entries, click here.
Instructor
N. Randy Scrudder
Page updated 24
October 2009
