Thursday, 17 November 2011

Back to square one?

So JT has been away all week until today.  He has come back to the middle of our final Science project on body systems.  Before he left he had partnered up with a peer who has now chosen a new partner because of the absences.  He was pretty upset about this.  He was completely back to his old self claiming he couldn't do it, couldn't find the answers, didn't know what method he wanted to use, etc.  He had a very negative attitude.  I sat with him and went over the information with him and we chose a poster.  I will have to update you on how the poster goes!

The rest of the class is working quite hard on their projects.  This year, I added the test to the list of options just like Pam did.  So far, only two of my students have chosen the test.  It could be out of laziness because they wasted the block today, so I told them they have to come in at lunch tomorrow.  Pam and I went through our outline to make the PLOs more evident so that they don't miss important information like they did last year.  We will have see how it all turns out!

On another note, I tried the window writers, graffiti, and chalkboard writing with my other classes and it was a hit! 

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