This week completely Flew by! I can't believe we're days away from Thanksgiving already! At the same time- it couldn't come soon enough! A lot of the students seem to be overwhelmed right now and I think we can all use the break! I finished my contract proposal and final evaluations this week. Wow. It feels like i'm just getting Started with these classes and i'm already doing final paperwork. I have been soo fortunate this semester for all of my experiences so far. There is a lot that I would still like to learn and do with these students.
Midweek I decided to introduce an alternative assessment project to the forensics classes that i'm going to use for my action research instead of giving a quiz on this topic. While evaluating my research so far this semester I realized that maybe looking at quiz scores no longer applies to measure engagement and motivation, which is my new main focus. I decided to assign them a project that would allow them to design their own project and demonstrate their learning to me in the way that they feel fits them best. Most students are really excited about it, which has gotten me excited about it as well. They are bringing in all types of supplies and brainstorming tons of interesting ideas. I have truly enjoyed these past few days of teaching because I get to see them so excited about the time spent in my classroom! We will be working a lot more on these Monday and Tuesday so I will have that to write about for my very short week next week! Until then I am just preparing for the upcoming break by finalizing a lot of my own paperwork and final lesson plans for the semester. 35 days til Christmas...:-)
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