Interesting post from Wes about worksheets.
Since I’m home sick I’m catching up on blog reading.
This post from Wes made me stop and think about how many worksheets my students get in a week – and on reflection there are some weeks they get NONE!
The Thursday Folder and Worksheet Measured Learning
At the February 2009 Oklahoma Technology Association’s conference, keynote speaker Will Richardson told a story about the worksheets his own students bring home from their public school each week which resonated with me. Will said he’d contemplated keeping all the papers for an entire school year in a big stack, and then photographing them to document the school-communicated learning they’d experienced all year. I then thought about doing the same thing, since our two oldest children (who are in elementary school) bring home a “Thursday folder” each week filled with the worksheets they’ve completed.
I too teach in public schools and ran across this post. I use a journal approach to my lessons and activities so there are very few worksheets at all that my students have. That said they do have a constant form of work to share with others, like parents.