Sunday, October 26, 2008

Fires in the Bathroom Chapter 10

The final chapter of Fires in the Bathroom is about going beyond the classroom. This means making real world connections to the material in class. This can be through examples that you discuss in class with them but the best method they suggest is to actually present them with those examples and bring them out into the world by taking the class outside. It does not have to be a huge project either, simply doing regular classroom work outside of the normal classroom setting can be helpful they said. The students said that designing projects outside of class using experts would be helpful because that would provide them with experience that they can translate into the real world and relate to. Finally the topic of arranging internships for students was discussed in the chapter and I had never even thought of this before. I always thought it was something college students did, not high school kids. But I can really see the potential for something like that to benefit them in the long run and really provide them with solid life experience they can use once they graduate.

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