Mid-Cycle Grade reports

"Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself"

"We only think when we are confronted with problems"

"Failure is instructive.  The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."

John Dewey (born yesterday, 1859)

Among other necessities, we averaged our SELF GRADING forms for the last 5 classroom days so the school can decide whether to send the students a notice of potential failure next week.  Except for one student who has never been to class for the last 9 weeks, and one who comes but chooses not to participate, all of my students are doing quite well.  The grades they give themselves aren't all that high, but they are all passing and seem to be enjoying what they are doing.  What more could a teacher ask?

I'm not going to say much today.  I'm going to let some of the students' ongoing art work speak for itself.  They are now about half way through this cycle, so none of the big works are finished, but some of the smaller ones are, since they need to do more of them.  Let's take a look.

As you can see, these works are definitely "in the process".  I'm very encouraged when the students ask how they can improve their work and also when they listen to suggestions and act on them.  I will post more next week and also updates as these get closer to and finally finished.