Sept. 4 - Life is about questions, but not necessarily answers!

Blog Topic: Research begins with questions, curiosities, and wonderings.  What do you wonder about in relation to your professional life? What questions do you have about things you care about in the world?  What burning questions do you want to figure out in your work space? Something that is working (and why)? Something that is not working (and why)? Something you want to figure out… For this first blog post, make a list:  an actual list of at least 20 questions that you genuinely would like to know the answer to that could inspire your YDEV capstone.

This blog was hard to start, make a list of 20 questions of things that you wonder about, sounds simple, right? Not! However, as I began to think about the first few questions, more began to pop in my mind, and while questions might have seemed like were getting easier, they really weren't. I think my real focus, was getting to 20 questions. Education has always been my inspiration learning about and how can we better it. Learning every day & seeing life from a different angle is the desire despite its challenges. This is why I hope some of these questions will lead to my future project, and while I don't necessary want an answer for all of these, I think they lead us to deeper thoughts and conversations.

1. Why does life have to be so hard in a world where not much is needed for things to be difficult?

2. How can we better support teachers in the classroom?

3. What is a strong, good youth program?

4. What can you do as a parent to better support your child in education?

5. Why can't we love everyone for who they are regardless of ones own beliefs?

6. How do we change life patterns, so that they do not repeat for the worst?

7. How as a society do we make sure all children are cared for, loved, receiving an education, and being children meaning knowing how to have fun & smile?

8. Why do systems work or do they?

9. If schools want more parent involvement why isn't the world place cooperating with this?

10. Why do we live in a selfish world?

11. If we decided to move to America, why are we constantly thinking about going back?

12. How many people do we need to make a team work?

13. Why are titles so important in the professional world?

14. How do we trust politics when it seems to be they forget why they are there in the first place?

15. If we are all humans then why is the world so divided?

16. Why do we continue to say students need Social Emotional Learning (SEL), but those that are teaching/humans are not trained to apply it?

17. Do we need structure in our lives? Why?

18. If money does not buy happiness & happiness cannot be bought then why do we need money in life?

19. If low-income, first generation student and/or disadvantage students were not label as such, would there be more success in the groups that identify as such?

20. How do we learn to work together when the interest is educating ourself for a better future?