Career Day

Last week was my school districts' "Go Get It Week!" It is a week devoted to talking to our students about the future and planning for the future, such as colleges they might want to attend and careers they might be interested in. For the most part, every day, our school had a speaker come and talk about their job. They would also talk about the importance of getting an education and how math, reading, writing, etc. are involved in their job.


Well, I had Tyson come with Rosco to talk to our 4th graders about being a police officer/K9 handler, and he did a GREAT job. I'm not being biased, but I'd say that out of all the speakers we had, he was the best one. ;) He did really well with his presentation, and the kids LOVED HIM! They just ate everything up! He got so many questions, and when we were trying to dismiss our kids back to our classrooms, they were swarming Tyson like bees to honey with questions and interest. We couldn't get them to refocus. There's something about a person in uniform that just draws an audience. No other speaker got the positive student response that Tyson got. Tyson also surprisingly had great classroom management skills for not working with kids on a day to day basis. Welllll.......then again........he does sort of deal with adults who are just bigger versions of kids with more years of experience with whinning and tatty-telling ("He cut in front of me!" "He was speeding too!" "He hit me first!").


First Tyson did a narcotics demo with Rosco on our playground, then he put him up and talked about his job. Below is a picture, but the rest is all videos. Sorry if you're unable to view them. :(

Talking to the kiddos. He did a great job!

Tyson's introduction

Introducing Rosco

Rosco searching the playground

The find. Everyone was impressed