Genius Time

Check out Two Writing Teachers for more Slice Of Life posts When I instituted Genius Time in my English 9 classes, I wasn't sure what to expect. I just liked the idea of kids learning for the sake of learning. I embraced the idea that kids would have choice, that they would decide where the learning led. When we started back in March, I said very little about the project. I told them I wanted them to decide what they wanted to learn about. "Can we work in groups?" they asked. "Of course." "You're not going to tell us what to do?" "Nope." "You don't care what we learn about?" "Just that it interests you. I want it to be something you really, really want to learn about. I don't want you to pick something just because you think it will be easy." So every Friday , after our 10 minute reading time (sacred time, never give up), they move on to their learning. Most of worked very hard. Of course, s