It Takes A Village

While reading this article I saw it as a great way of teaching students. I think that students achieve more responsibility when they have projects dealing with the community. When they do projects like this, the question of, when I am going to use this, pops up rarely and students have more of an appreciation for the subject that they are learning. Projects that deal with the community also can bring in the subject integration that we are all learning is a great way to teach. I thought this article was awesome, because it actually reminded me of Teach With Your Heart, but on a smaller scale. When we were reading teach with your heart, a lot of us kept thinking, we are never going to be able to do this, but this article shows us that we can change our students lives, maybe not as big of an impact as Erin was, but we can get close. I’ve always believed that community involvement is a great thing for students, because it draws students closer to their community.
Angela had an opposing view about the article. She thought that the whole big idea of it was just about teaching hands- on, and how we keep learning about that over and over again. She liked the idea that projects like this are more important than just an A to a lot of students. She wasn’t big on the article because she felt like it had been taught to us over and over again and she believes that it is getting old.