Chapter 10 Reading Response

At the end of a project, students should have time to reflect upon on their journey.  Making this time is important because it makes them feel accomplished and they learn from their own work.  Students grow by seeing what they have done before and all the work it took them to finish to get to their final product.  This gives them a chance to look at their journey and experience a different view of their own work.  Teachers should also give prepared questions for students in order for them to answer about their reflection.  Ask them what they learned, what satisfied them the most and what will they always remember about this journey.  Before the students get started on the project, make sure to discuss elaboration and where they want to go with this.  The students should take a little glimpse of what their project will turn out to be and the little details they should incorporate in their journey.  Not all schools have traditions but when you think about it, they have their own identity and that becomes their own tradition.  Once one class or a person starts something, the whole school gets involved and that makes it aware to everyone.  This is a good way to get a tradition started so this same process happens every year.  Once this is ongoing, other schools and people see this school as their own identity and known for what they do.  This is great because other schools and teachers can look up to a certain school and make them known for the great work and imaginative ideas.  Another importance of finishing a project is the celebration.  It is so important for students and teachers to celebrate the end and completion of a great project.  Holding a party or creating an event for this gives students that good feeling of accomplishing something so big.  Another way to show praise is to display the projects in a library, museum or their school to show the interesting work.  These concepts relate closely to our ongoing project.  We are done with all of our little project but the big one has yet to come.  We have to combine all of our work and present the bigger and finished one to an audience.  By doing this we have to make a website and put all of our finished products on their to show everyone what we did.  This becomes a tradition because every class will have to do this and this is class has its own identity.