Started yesterday to think about taking on a project.
I was listening to some ADE's talk about what they had achieved and realised that nothing I have done with the kids has really been 'amazing'; I mean it was at first but I'm looking for the new amazing. I think I need to start small and plan ahead.
I think that the kids that are engaged in my classroom are the kids that would be engaged anyway. They're engaged for extrinsic reasons - they want to do well for their parents, to get ahead etc... which is great. But I want to get the others, the ones I have to nag and whinge at to get work done.
I want to start a project that the kids care about, that they are interested in and will be intrinsically motivated to be a part of and that is challenging.
I was lucky enough to meet up with some awesome people at ITSC and came away with some leads to follow up. I have a contact who could link our kids with kids from other communities, I have a bucket of money that I could apply for as well as some awesome ideas about the delivery of the project.
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