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leftovers, grades, attitude, pink cup......

From: Bunki Kramer (bkramer.us)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 09:16:08 PDT

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    from: Bunki Kramer (bkramer.us)
    Los Cerros Middle School
    968 Blemer Road
    Danville, CA 94526
    http://ww2.lcms.srvusd.k12.ca.us/faculty/faculty.html
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    > Is > it a universal thing that middle school students don't want their
    artwork? > Will I have room for portfolios in the room? I guess I'll have
    to wait and > see and deal.......
    > Holly :0)
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    No...it's not. Peer pressure aside, I agree with Maggie in that they really
    want to take it home and like it when they are given no recourse.
    Actually...I think there are ALOT of middle school kids who like
    limitations, rules but want to appear to their friends that they don't.

    Anyway....I do basically the same as Mag. In my policy sheet I tell the
    parents what will be coming home and when so they can expect it. I follow
    this up by telling kids the last day to take their art home...their parents
    are expecting it...and anything left behind..or on campus...will be docked a
    grade lower on their report card. "If you don't care about your artwork,
    then neither will I care about your grade." I really don't have a
    problem...NORMALLY. The only ones that are left behind are absent students
    and even most evenually come and ask for them so I don't throw them away all
    summer...just store those few.

    Also...instead of taking things from their portfolio and saving them in
    piles for shows/etc....when I give them a grade in my gradebook, I circle
    the ones I want back so I don't have to go through all the portfolios again
    to check. We save everything in their cubbies in portfolios too so it's easy
    to go in and get what I need when I need it. Nothing goes home until the
    final day so it's always there for me.

    All in all...I think it's YOUR attitude that makes a difference if they
    consider their artwork worthy of taking home. If YOU think it's fabulous,
    they will be inclined to think so too. It goes right up there with the OTHER
    attitude of...they will give you (in artwork) EXACTLY what you ask of them.
    You expect it, they'll give it...everytime!

    I got a kick out of the story about Michal's "pink cup". I try to save a few
    bad examples as well. It's a fabulous teaching tool, isn't it?

      

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