Chapter 10: Celebrating and Reflecting

                                                                                                       Ricki Feuereisen 

When completing a project or even a homework assignment, it is important to set aside time for a reflection. The reason this is an important factor is because, it helps the student feel good about their accomplishments. More importantly, reflections can be the thing that makes the learning really stick. It also helps them think about what they learned throughout the project and/or assignment. Not only do students need to reflect on what they learned but they can also reflect on how they completed the assignment and how well they thought they did. Reflections helps students reveal things they may not think about, the book gives examples of what the student learned, how they grew as a learner and what students want to learn ahead from other projects.

Students need to elaborate on their reflections because it opens the student’s eyes. Student’s elaborating on their reflection, allows them to think about where they want to go and what they want to learn next.

            Schools build traditions and identity by building awareness in others. Teachers should hold class traditions, meaning, to teach something year after year that students are excited for and talk about with their friends and family. Teachers and schools should hold a class celebration at end of the year, unit, and semester, where anyone can come. Students will work hard to keep up a tradition and they feel it’s a privilege to be apart of the experience.

            The importance of celebrating a project is because you’re celebrating students learning and the hard work they put into completing the project. You want to celebrate student growth and display student work so that friends, family, and community members can see. You are also celebrating the class and the work they complete in the classroom. You are celebrating the end product.

            This chapter relates to my topic/project, because at the end of the unit, we are putting together a festival of all the research that we have done. We will be creating advertisements and getting sponsors and inviting people from the community to come check it out and see all the work that was done.