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Quote by: Rinoa  No, right now wouldn't be a good time to implement it but a project of that size could take all summer to develop. |
True. But of all the things I plan to do with my summer, "Spend all of it planning next year's curriculum" is right at the bottom of the list. I like my job and all, but it isn't my life.:)
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Quote by: Rinoa My science in Junior year actually had it setup so that we could choose our grades. We had to do so many C level assignments to get a C then we could move up and do a certain amount of B level assignments to get a B, etc. Now, I know that the current grading system still allows children to choose their grade, but this forced it to be a conscious effort, instead of just a ton of assignments. |
This is an interesting system; I honestly don't know if it would work here. My student population is very unmotivated, particularly when it comes to higher level thinking skills; I tend to believe that many of them, when given the freedom to choose what to do, wouldn't do anything. But I think I will try something like this next year, at least for one term.
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Quote by: Rinoa For the novel I'd assign the assignments by chapter, and let the kids read through them as quickly as they wished, forming discussion groups for sets of chapters so that you could focus on the group making the slowest progress. Though you'd need a rather large class size for this. |
No, the problem is that the group making the slowest progress would be the four or five kids in each class who aren't passing, don't want to pass, and have very little interest in learning anything at all. These kids are almost always the problem with this sort of cooperative learning groups; in a student population that has more basic interest in education than this one, it can be handled. Perhaps it can be handled here, too, but I am, shall we say, underconfident.
I appreciate the ideas, though. I'll definitely be thinking about ways to implement this.