Deep Thinkers

I don't think anything excited me more in this classroom than the fact that my co-op did frequent journal entries; more than that, the students LOVE them... I'm serious, they comletely eat them up! Sometimes the prompt will be related to something the students were learning in class that day, other times it's just something random. What amazes me most is the amount of in-depth thinking these students put into their responses! One of the prompts I gave was to have the students describe their biggest fear either by writing about it, drawing it, or writing a poem. You would not believe the responses I got! My co-op has really encouraged these students to go the extra level with their thinking and writing responses, and in a way that makes it appealing. I'm learning how to develop those open-ended quesitons, and have been sharing these ideas with the class. Hopefully I continue to be able to do this, and will hopefully also have this oppurtunity in my student teaching placement!