Monday, November 11, 2013

Week 15: Stretching Children's Competence

We are really getting down to the last weeks of the program!  This was actually our last regular lesson for Approaches.  We will only have two more weeks in this course together after this.

This lesson was about designing activities that push our students to new levels.  We do this by thinking about what they can do (which we know from observation, of course) and designing tasks that are just beyond that.  To ensure that they can complete the activities, we provide different kinds of support to help them through to the end.  

The lesson this week was great practice for Project 2, which you will bring to class next week.  We will spend the whole class next week sharing our projects with each other, so it's important that you bring your assignment to contribute.  I will collect them when we finish sharing. I'm so excited to see the interesting and original activities that you come up with!

One more note: Please include the rubric with your project.  It really helps me :)