Woodshop

Woodshop offers many things to younger students who could use this class to build their future. 

Mancelona High School Woodshop class takes off to a great start, after(how many years) of not having the class, woodshop has come back in full force with a new teacher, Mr. Garzella. Mr. Garzella says that "he decided to come work for Mancelona Schools as the new woodshop teacher because his impressions of the students, the staff, and the community were all very welcoming, and positive, and the school does what's best for the kids." It has been 6 years since the Mancelona High School had a full-time woodshop teacher. The process of rebuilding the woodshop involves the budget, the layout of the woodshop, getting the shop organized, setting up new equipment, getting rid of old equipment, and establishing buy-in by the students. Mr. Garzella is the new woodshop teacher after the old woodshop teacher left about 6 years ago. Mr. Garzella has been cleaning organizing and upgrading the woodshop class since he started working at the school. The Mancelona woodshop class used to be known for the extraordinary dining tables that they used to create. Mr. Garzella has been teaching the students this year about the basics of woodshop and has helped the classes make cutting boards, pasta measurements, and shelves to help them get started in their journey through woodshop class. 

Some of the transferable skills that the students in Mr. Garzellas's woodshop classes would involve problem-solving, team building, support of one another, troubleshooting problems with equipment and their personalized projects, people skills, which are a sort of soft skill, hands-on learning, setting machines up safely, operating the machines correctly and safely, and pressing lumber for there projects.

“Some of the projects that caught my eye were “Emily's table, Ben's checkerboard, Zach's table, Kaylee's bookcase, and Michals's corn-hole boards. “

Some of the major accomplishments for Mr. Garzella are the students buying too the program, students representing themselves, respecting themselves and others, being responsible for themselves and their projects, and rewarding themselves with projects and their success. Some of the accomplishments of the students are the start-too-finish of the projects that they designed, the woodshop set-up was a lot of work and the students stepped up and helped make it happen.

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