One of the things that I like to do at the beginning of the year is to ask students to think about what makes good work. I posed the question today of “what makes good daily work ?” but asked them to write about notions of good and daily in three areas:
thought: the way you think
speech: the things you say
actions: the things you do
These are the results, which we’ll turn into a daily rubric when we have time. Student initials by the comments.
One of the best parts of this conversation was when HG pointed out that we can’t do all of these things every day. We can only try.
No doubt.
In terms of follow-up, these posters have been placed on the wall and will be used as a way of judging the daily written work. In a world where there is so little time, I hope that they can serve as gentle reminders of how we want to be known each day.
