This week is the end of the trimester for the students at my current placement, and as a special end of trimester treat, I assigned a fun project to my students. I asked that they brainstorm lists of things that they are good at and things they like to do, and from that list I asked them choose one skill to demonstrate in front of the class. I made this a formal assignment by requiring a visual and an outline of the five-step process that they would be demonstrating.
Topics included how to make paper air-planes, how to make grilled quesadillas, how to write a song, and how to play defensive linebacker in football. Anyone who brought in food for the class as part of their presentation got extra credit, so today alone we all got grilled cheese, rosemary bread, and a cupcake. Based on these results, I think that I will require my students of any age every year to do demonstration speeches! This is definitely an assignment worth 'stealing' from my CT!
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