Fortunately, I had done some resource gathering for the inquiry phase of the project to equip a local business with children’s menu placemats back in Hawaii. UNfortunately, I hadn’t really fleshed out what I was going to do WITH those resources as of about 5AM Wednesday morning. So here’s the plan I threw together
Community Partners are pretty much the whole point of PBL in language classes: you WANT students interacting and using the language outside of your classroom! What makes a project authentic is actually engaging with people who use the language in Real Life, right? So I have always advocated enlisting at least one Public Audience of native Read more…
It was me and two other English teachers. We about had a knock-down-drag-out with a teaching guru visiting our district who told us in no uncertain terms: RUBRICS ARE BAD. We were told that the rubrics were slayers of creativity, that they stunted our students, and moreover, they were for Read more…