Thrive 67 - Students who stay in school for HBL

 I interviewed 2 students to look at their work for the day. My purpose was originally to see if staying back indeed helped them to produce quality work. To my surprise, these are what I found.

"I wrote a lot here and knowing that it only requires a few lines"

"I saved and did not submit because I want to get the correct answer."

"I do not know how to read (Mother Tongue) the question." 

"Look, this is my video" - showing me his photography of the sky by the month. "I'm too lazy to download the video now for the art."

"These are games for us to revise, I just anyhow do" - Do you know that answer? "Yes" - Running very quickly, showing me the correct answer.

"I have forgotten to do the maths, I will do it later" - showing me the given the hardcopy.

Conclusion: Reduce curriculum, Understand students as curriculum. Read again "curriculum and the child" Do something that the students really care about. I really need to have time in class to understand what students really care about. One of the principles of Knowledge Building (KB)

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