And We've Come to the End

So it's that time of the year for seniors, we have come to the point in the year where the students are done. It's May, I can't blame them to much. Yet as I passed out the same old review (revised to cover this years material, but still same concept of previous years) I couldn't help but think - THERE AS TO BE A BETTER WAY TO END THE YEAR!!!

I mean, ever since I was given the chance to go digital, and even to some degree before then, I have tried to not do the ordinary. You can see it in the kids face's most days, they hate school - and who can blame them. We ask them to come to a building and sit in desks, and go against human instinct - be quite and work with little breaks. And then we ask them to repeat this process over
and over
and over
and over (we have 8 periods in my building)
day after
day after
day ..... (you get the point)

It's boring.

Most teachers want to do engaging things, at least those that I read and try to emulate in my building. We are human beings as well, and doing the same thing everyday would be just of a big of beating on us as the kids. Yet knowing this - I feel into the same trap!!

I passed out a long, uninspiring review. Here do this. Define this.

What?!?! I know better!! What the hell happened!

As a teacher of seniors I'm torn - I have my college bond kids that need to be shown how to take a semester worth of information, boil it down, study and then take a pressured exam over it - like traditional college (though I hope they are changing a we below them push to change the way we teach as well). Yet I also have tons of kids that college isn't in their plan, and knowing how to create a meaningful product would be a worth while experience.

So I ask, ponder, and think about - How do we end the school year and do both - prepare students for college, yet not bore them to tears in the process?