Ah, the reality of how I want to teach and how I am (sometimes) required to teach! Two conflicting aspects of our teaching profession have both been quite evident today!
My students and I have decided to add another 'class' to our Kidblog site and use it to upload pieces they work on together. They have lots of thing in mind: group book responses, our Beothuk projects, perhaps a 'newspaper' about our shared class experiences, Public Service Announcements, digital stories and so on. To walk around my room this morning and see the kids huddled at tables, on the floor and out in the hallway making plans is the kind of rewarding response I get in my classroom on a regular basis. My kids are not expecting me to lead in all areas, to tell them what they want to learn about (all the time), nor do they think anymore I expect them to complete the same assignment on the same material. And so I get things like this happening: