Reflection #10

Corin Justa

Chapter 10 Reflection:

            Throughout the duration of a project it is important to help guide students along their journey. The importance of setting aside time for reflection allows for constructive criticism among peers, teachers and the community. By allowing students to look back on their work and admire their accomplishments, we provide the opportunity for the children to observe their experience and really identify what they have learned and where they will go from there. Students need to reflect and elaborate on their work in order to make what they learned more meaningful and cause them to end the project with a positive experience and outcome.

            When students take pride in their educational accomplishments, it is important to support and recognize their work from more than the classroom. By establishing and promoting students learning activities, schools can produce traditions that will excite future students. Schools can work together to promote student successes through rewards and celebrations to distinguish each and every student’s abilities and efforts. All of this relates to our topic by relating the importance of reflection, closure and celebration from successes. After completing a big project students need to be able to take away just as much from the project as what they put in to create it. When we as teachers recognize and admire students work, and guide them to take pride in their accomplishments, we generate the opportunity to lead them to become even more intrigued in engaging in their future educational topics; therefore allowing them to soar as they approach higher education in future successes as they continue to grow and learn.