What’s Cooking in the Kitchen?

We can gain transferable skills from kitchen to classroom that can help us throughout our lives!

Keep reading as I show you how important life skills such as; organization, time management, critical thinking, problem solving, and communication can transfer themselves from kitchen to classroom.

I. Building Organizational Skills

From kitchen to classroom, the kitchen inspires education through building our organizational skills.

Organization in the kitchen means having all the ingredients planned, prepared, and ready to be assembled!

Being organized makes mealtime preparations easier to follow and understand when you have all the ingredients ready as you follow the steps to putting them altogether.

In the classroom, this means having all materials necessary for the lesson planned, prepared, and ready to be used.

In school, teachers and students need to keep their supplies, goals, and thoughts organized.

This helps set the stage for important educational strategies to used by both teachers and students in order for both to get the most of out the lesson when it comes to teaching and learning.

Click here to learn more about how to stay organized in school.

II. Establishing Time Management Skills

From kitchen to classroom, time management, as any great cook will tell you, is vastly important in the kitchen!

We all know the importance of time management in following directions to a recipe, and the results that can happen when we don’t pay attention to time.

We could undercook, or overcook the meal, as bad consequences.

When we do pay attention to time, we end with amazing results (the meal), and a recipe…