I am back after a year and a half's absence.
I certainly had many dramas and dilemmas but just never bothered to write about them here. I am back thanks to a computer course I am participating in and also because of a major teaching drama.
I want my students to read - no nothing original or groundbreaking in that. The dilemma with asking students to read is how to check if they have read the books or not. I dislike book reports - they are boring for both pupil and teacher. Personal response logs are great and I have had success with them - but not every student's cup of tea. So after a major disappointed in some of my best pupils, for plagiarizing a book assignment, I have decided to open up an extensive reading blog and see how that works.
I am fully aware that there are teachers who have already done this - again nothing original in my plan - just something that I have never tried before.
The student's plagiarism has forced me into going out of my comfort zone - they weren't the only ones to learn a life lesson this week.
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