Chapter Six of Daniels and Bizar is about authentic experiences. An idea presented in the chapter is "Me Portfolios." The idea is to have students bring in items that represent them and share with the class. I think this is a stellar idea to use in the beginning of the year to allow students to get to know one another. After reading the section it made me think of a lesson I was teaching during my student teaching on whales. The students read about whales, saw pictures and we discussed them but none of them had actually 'experienced' being near a whale. I had the idea to bring in pictures of me at Sea World with whales on Friday as a fun activity. It amazed me how much more knowledge the student gained by seeing and hearing my story about the whales at Sea World.
My next thought as a spin of off the "Me Portfolios" is to have the students share "me" stories throughout the year to supplement lessons. As we all know we must know our students and that is definelty a component of this idea, but you can also have students brainstorm experiences and things they like at the beginning of the year to get to know them and use the information for this purpose. After collecting the experiences and things students like the teacher can try to correlate one experience of every student to a weekly lesson. (I hope that makes sense to you guys!)
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