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Middle School News & Events
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"WE
HAD THE BEST TIME AT BESTBUY."
Nancy
King, the Home and Careers teacher at RMS, strives to prepare
her students for "life" in the real world.
According to the NYSMSA standards (Want to see? click HERE)
for the middle level Home and Careers class, this course’s
“mission is to prepare individuals to be competent,
confident and caring in managing their personal, family
and work lives. . . This class will give them some of the
information and necessary tools that will enable them to
thrive in an increasingly competitive and technologically
advanced society.” The standards also stress “that
seventh graders are still concrete in their style of learning”
and need real life, hands-on experiences.
Application of those skills are married in Nancy King's
class to caring for those outside the classroom through
community service events (e.g., quilts for the Kent Animal
Shelter, decorated lunch bags for nutrition centers) and
an occasional field trip.
Recently her class spent part of a day at the BestBuy store
on Route 58 in Riverhead “shadowing” employees.
The trip and the free lunch that followed were arranged
by RMS guidance counselor Jennifer Berzolla and Connie Gevinski,
the District’s School to Career Coordinator, through
the Jr. Achievement of New York organization.
“We often team up with the BestBuy Children’s
Foundation, which  provides
BestBuy volunteers to share with school groups career opportunities
and a look at new technologies in a rapidly changing and
challenging world economy,” explained the representative
from JA, who met the class at the store.
BestBuy
employees, Dave Salemi, who is taking a year off from Brooklyn
Poly Tech where he's majoring in Computer Engineering, Tom
Crabb, who is also a computer major, and the Customer Service
Supervisor, Kathleen Kelly, who has a degree in graphic
design, talked to the students about the importance of education
AND work experience in building a career in a computer-related
industry.
Kelly added, "I really valued my time in college, and
even though I'm not exactly working in my field right now,
I know that both my education and what I'm learning now
at BestBuy are important ingredients to that career choice."
"If you enjoy something, follow it as a career choice,
" advised Salemi.
On their way to get some pizza in the staff lounge, one
of the 22 RMS students who went to BestBuy, said it this
way, "It's great. BestBuy is the BEST when it comes
to learning about careers."
On St. Patrick's Day, some of the students at the Pulaski
Street School will get their chance to shadow employees
at the BestBuy store. They can hardly wait.
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