With our return from Spring Break, our teaching assignments will take flight. No doubt, students will have some interesting stories to tell about their foray in teaching a class, assigning and grading homework, assessing student performance and administering an exam. This should be unique, to say the least. However, the real interest will lie in what confronts students after the teaching assignment. In covering the topics addressed in chapters 11, 12, and 13, students will be faced with a choice. They will have to decide if they wish to approach the content within a standard textbook framework of through the composition of Document Based Questions. I think that both will be challenging, but students are going to have make a choice about whether they have a passion to explore their talents in history and writing. This will be where I think the more interesting aspect of our students’ choices will lie.
For now, let students be teachers. Let them experience the dizzying highs an painful lows of being an educator. Let them live at the hyphen, replete with its discomfort and anxiety. Once they are done with this, we will stand back allowing them to choose. In the next couple of weeks, blog entries will be focused on both options.
For now, though, happy hunting.
Mr. Kannan
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