This is such a great post! I have often dreamed about connecting my 5th grade classroom to a HS classroom so that I could collaborate around some incredible learning experiences. In this fantasy, both classrooms are close in proximity and while the HS students are reading Their Eyes Were Watching God, the 5th graders could be studying man versus nature and completing a complimentary project. I love the idea of taking a high-rigor project and differentiating it back to my 5th graders.
I do wish there were more opportunities not just for cross-curricular partnerships but also vertical connections within subjects—so hard to navigate, of course, but so worth it when done well. (Worth it in both directions, too!)
Oh man…all the mistakes I’ve made…I think the entirety of my first two years of teaching was just one mistake after another.
It' a good thing I have a lot of examples ready to share, since every time I do my son's response is, "Okay, Daddy, can you share another mistake?"
12 years of teaching should make this game last a long time...
This is such a great post! I have often dreamed about connecting my 5th grade classroom to a HS classroom so that I could collaborate around some incredible learning experiences. In this fantasy, both classrooms are close in proximity and while the HS students are reading Their Eyes Were Watching God, the 5th graders could be studying man versus nature and completing a complimentary project. I love the idea of taking a high-rigor project and differentiating it back to my 5th graders.
Thanks for the shoutout! I appreciate it.
I do wish there were more opportunities not just for cross-curricular partnerships but also vertical connections within subjects—so hard to navigate, of course, but so worth it when done well. (Worth it in both directions, too!)