Teacherscribe's Teaching Thought #109
Recruit students to go on an
Academic Hero’s journey
I’m stealing this hack from James Alan Sturtevant,
a high school history teacher. Here
is his website where he posts his
work and thoughts on teaching.
Kelsey Johnson strongly recommended this when I stopped by the
media center to grab some summer readings from our professional development
library.
Hack 52 - Recruit Students to Embark on an Academic Hero's Journey
-- this is a great idea that involves using another great website, hyperdocs.
Kelly Weets loaned me her book on hyperdocs last summer, and I read it
cover to cover. Sturtevant focuses here on how students rarely celebrate
or chronicle their own academic achievement (or even their regular
accomplishments). So he offers this link, Hyperdocs. Here is a link to the specific Hero's Journey template.
Sturtevant challenges his students to fill out the template with
something they have accomplished in or out of school. Then they take
turns presenting it to the class.
This is pretty much what I have students do when we read So
Good They Can't Ignore You when we focus on deliberate practice.
Now I have another way to frame the concept for students.
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