How To Choose The Right High School Electives

Choosing the right electives can be an easy task but you're probably doing it wrong. Today's video, I talk about how to choose electives from the perspective of you 10 years from now.

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I'm back from vacation, my mind is well-rested and a video post is long overdue! Today, I look at how to choose the best high-school electives. The topic was brought you by my little sister as she;s wondering what electives to take that will best help her attain her college/university goals. I remember picking the best electives for me back in high school and typically that meant choosing courses that I knew I was good at or interested me. Looking back, I don't think that was the best strategy.

In today's video, I talk about:

- The electives I took when I was in high school
- Electives that are available today
- The best electives to take, which are the ones that complement your skillset
- How your high school electives can actually be a huge help for you in your adult years

Although I didn't get to talk about it this in my video, I'd add physical education onto your list. As someone who was overweight and an asthmatic, I hated PE but in the long term, physical education is essential in teaching you how to use weights, how to do exercises properly and how to play common sports (like volleyball, basketball, etc).

Today's academic society places too much attention on our minds and they are neglecting our bodies. The two are connected and one is not more important than the other - they are both important, so don't ignore your body. Be active and be aware of motion and movement.

I actually explore this topic in more detail in my other video:
"Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Body."

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[chrisstorey]

Its funny how i get to plan out all my classes in eighth grade while some people choose their 12th grade stuff in 11th

[donna]

I have 2 free spots and dozens of electives to choose from this is so frustrating

[neyberto]

As a sophomore I choose business law, computer programming and information technology

[Wetpapertowelsmell]

Thank you for this video, I'm 8th and I have to pick my electives in the next 3 or 4 days

[Sly-Moose]

I got to take so many different eletives in high school. X3
Art (loved)
Movie Making (liked but switched to PHTG)
Photography (loved)
PE (we focused on volleyball a lot in 10th grade so... liked)
Yes I Can (liked)
More Art (loved)
Career Visions (did not love)
Theatre (loved)
Tech Foundations (loved)
More Career Visions (disliked)
More Art (loved)
More Theatre (loved)
Spanish (loved)
Ceramics (loved)
More Spanish (loved)
TA (eh)
More TA (boring)
Current Events (good)

And I loved all my English classes. I love writing. And surprisingly, I also loved math and really loved my history classes. I enjoyed government and economics... Biology tho... I did not enjoy. I love geology tho.

[katherine]

I really want to do this video production class because whenever I’m in the room everyone in the class feels like my family and I want to be able to enjoy that throughout high school but I don’t wanna do it as a career I think of it more as a hobby that really interests me to do throughout high school because it sounds super fun. The actual career I want to go into is anything in the medical field and there is a program at my school that offers that which I know I would enjoy so so much but the thing is it does require a lot of work and if I don’t enjoy it I would have given up my chance to be part of my video production class. My video production class is really important to me but it’s not what I’m planning to do as a career while the program is what I want to be in the future. I don’t want to give up my video production class for a program that I might not even like. This program might help me get into a really good college and will give me a huge head start at whichever college I choose to go to. I don’t know how to pick which one I would rather do, they both are such cool opportunities and I just can’t pick which one. Any advice?

[amersadeghi]

I made a huge mistake picking electives in my grade 9 and 10 but thanks for the video.

[yetus]

I picked visual arts and dance! i was stuck between dance and chorus because my chorus teacher had so much faith in me and i picked dance over chorus. I picked dance because i love dancing and my mom said it would be nice for me to learn something new. But i love chorus and i dont know if i made the right choice

[faithh..]

guys i don’t know what to choose band or video production, i feel like video production but than feel like i’m going to regret not doing band? sometimes i like to do band but than sometimes i don’t really like it? i need help deciding i can’t decide 🥶

[Elijah]

I chose personal finance because I thought it would be good for when I get older, and because there werent a lot of options that were easy or things that I liked. Anyone know if personal finance is hard.

[serenity-jtpm]

I’m going into 8th and for the first time I’m going to a public middle and theres the choose 3 electives thing I have and I’ve never had it before.I don’t have that much to choose from other than the basic art, dance,drama and some other things.

[nobodys_home_]

there are so many choices and i only have one i can pick. i’m worried that art electives will be too easy since ive taken so many before, but i really love art and there’s no other class but beginner or AP which is overboard. i don’t know what else i should pick because i know i don’t have a lot of room for electives in the future as well :(

[Blue_ocean]

I was not allowed to attend my highschool graduation because I failed an elective class. This class was not necessary for me to get my highschool diploma. Why are highschool students prevented from attending there graduation for the grade of a unnecessary class? 🤔

[gavinclark]

Unfortunately my school is odd and doesn't let me choose my electives. I just get what's put on my schedule. They don't even ask me what I want. It's random.

I live in SC. And SC is known for deplorable education. Smh.

[legendarymatt]

I want to be a blacksmith, what class should I take for that?

[hannahn]

My forecasting is due in 6 days though it was not my fault I go to a school that is a charder school so my middle school experience is not the normal one and only got the information a couple of weeks ago like 2 and like a half I don’t know what I want to be and my mom keeps telling me to pick electives that I would be interested in have a job in but I was hopping to just do ones that Interest me like fun ones but I will take my grades seriously! But I don’t know what I want to be and I’m jus not sure!

[NINO]

Why were you say drades do not matter skills are more important ..? You need a good grade to get to the good university

[spiritual]

What should I do? I want to be a doctor. In my freshman year I got ace classes (which are advanced classes) and I choose Spanish 1. Should I change anything for 10th grade? (The councilors came to my class in 8th grade and asked which ones I wanted and I chose Spanish) (I am a couple of months from 9th grade)

Thank you, this will help a lot

[imdone]

I want to make music like produce music what classes should I take?

[amardeep]

I’m literally at a 53 in computer studies and it was definitely not the thing for me and I feel really useless because I can’t find anything that suits me