The Problem

I would like to re-design my Accounting Curriculum.  If I am bored with the lecture, samples, and then homework, I can only imagine how my students feel.  I want to break away from the workbook and integrate some technology and problem solving skills that go beyond the textbook.  I would like to go out the community and use resources available.  There a lot of life skills in accounting like balancing a checkbook but that is only one chapter out of 17.  I want to improve my lessons by bringing in community mentors or doing little accounting projects around the school.  My principal, for years, has been asking if my students could help keep books for our community food pantry.  I have been nervous; are my students ready to take on a job that big when just learning about accounting?  Yet, I think this is a big part of my problem, letting go and letting students take charge of their learning.  Learning becomes more natural if done in an environment that let's them think outside the box (at least that is what I have been learning in this class so far) :-).