Here at DCS we find ourselves in the midst of 'exam week', a seven-day expanse of student heads down in silence writing frantically. This yields a hell-inducing load of marking, teachers with heads down in silence grading frantically, as you will, which then informs further teacher mania with a word-heavy number of student reports all needing to be turned around in an itty-bitty space of time.
I'm thrilled.
Before all of that though, I created a scheme of work for my year 8 class on travel writing. Based on the fact that my students have been to many, many more destinations than I have, I knew there would be ample material.
Educationally, what I loved about teaching it was the notion of 'authentic assessment'. In non-teacher speak, we created a real, live working product that models something in the real world. Not a five-paragraph essay, not a 45-minute pressure filled timed response. A blog. We created a blog.
I give you said blog:
8CG Travels
My students rocked it. I couldn't be prouder.
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