Post-reflection

The collaboration is coming to an end and I'm reading over the evaluations. This was definitely a learning experience for me. Working with Brenda, who fortunately has experience in the school library, was great. She had some great ideas that I never thought about before and that I'd like to inplement this year when I do this project with my seniors.
The evaluations have been interesting to read, as well. There are some that I think, "yeah, they're right", "yes, that is a good point". It's always nice to get a difference perspective of things from someone else's point of view. I've always been a strong believer that anyone can give you ideas, even if they haven't been teaching as long as I, they still have a different way of thinking. So, I respect everyone's opinions and took them into consideration.
I will work on "perfecting" this project with my students this year. From here, we can only go up and learn more from each other.
It was also nice to see how a school librarian can really help me and I know that don't utilize our school librarian enough. Now that I know what can be done with both of us working on a project for the better of the students, it can only get better from here.

Assessment

Brenda and I had discussed the assessment. There are a few things that we've decided to do, which improves the lesson as whole, and I look forward to really teach all this to my students. We are doing smaller assessment through-out each lesson. Then, the final assessment will be the presentation that the students will prepare. With the help of the LMS they will learn the reasons that plagarism is not right or allowed. And they will be able to do their own work. Working on the project, and producing something that they researched on their own and learned from class, will truly show to me what they learned and how it affected their thoughts on Japan. This project is not only for them to learn about Japan and the history, but also think about the history and how it has affected Japan today and why it is the way it is today.