The Project - Reflection 1
So I have launched "The Project" in my sophomore and junior classes. We are a week and a half into the process. These are my reflections thus far: 1. My proposal process was much tougher than I thought it would.be. I expected it to be challenging, but I underestimated the time it would take to read, critique, and return each proposal, almost always working though multiple drafts. Doing it in four classes at once was a lot. 2. Kids are not used to thinking on their own. Many kids struggled to come up with even a topic. Others got started, but at the first sign of uncertainty, they didn't know what to do. This is new stuff. It is new to me too. I'll admit that after awhile, I began to help/write many of their central questions for them. I'm not sure how big a foul this is. On one hand, I'm doing the hard work for them. On the other, they chose the topic, and this is new, so giving them a solid base to work from, rather than letting them struggle through to