HOORAY FOR THE STUDENTS...WITHOUT THEM I'D JUST BE AN ECCENTRIC, BABBLING ABOUT THE VIRTUES OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE TO A NATION WORSHIPPING AT THE FEET OF GERALD SEINFELD AND COMPANY.
My intention this year is to enlist my alternative high school students into helping me with my portfolio projects for National Boards. I'm thinking that together we can pull this off. For one thing who knows more about what makes a great and exciting lesson (worthwhile and relevant and meaningful) than the folks who will be sitting through the lesson?
I've actually been told by teachers who have been through this part of the "boards" that kids (even elementary level) begin to see the project as theirs. One teacher told me that after she submitted her portfolio, the kids started to quiz her on just how long it would be before the results arrived. Quite a few of them actually came back in September and asked her how "they" did.
I think that's kind of neat.
