One unexpected way that I often see my students’ personalities come out is in their assignment books. We have a custom assignment book that correlates with our practice incentive theme each year, and one of the elements is that they always have to record what they practiced and on which days in order to keep track and get credit for their practicing. This may sound straightforward, but it’s delightful to see creativity come out even in the pages of an assignment book! For example, check out this page from one of my new students this year:
She has been doing various geometric patterns, but this week decided to use different fruits to represent her practicing. Another student, a high schooler, likes to take meticulous notes about her practicing or use it for additional communication from week to week:
Regardless of how they use it, the important thing is that they do and that it’s an additional way of communicating well with one another and watching them express their personalities. Isn’t teaching such a wonderful journey of discovery in so many ways?!
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