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Welcome to REED JHS Challenges!
Welcome to REED JHS Challenges!
This is a place for strong students, who may not be fully challenged by the class lesson, to expand their knowledge, learn both funny and important things, share with classmates and have fun in English class.
Each month we will post two new challenges for these students to take on. Also, browse through last year's challenges to find one that may interest you. Plan ahead, because many challenges are connected to calendar dates. You may want to have students complete their challenge in advance of the calendar date, so they can present it to your class on a particular date!
Rationale
Rationale
We all have students sitting in our JHS classes (even our highlest level classes) who are bored. They are not enriching their language, they quicly complete assignments and sometimes they even lash out and are a behavior issue.
We all have students sitting in our JHS classes (even our highlest level classes) who are bored. They are not enriching their language, they quicly complete assignments and sometimes they even lash out and are a behavior issue.
For these students we have created mini-projects which are fun and interesting which they can access independently and work on them without disrupting or being bored. they can also share their presentations with the class afterwards and that is GREAT LEARNING!
For these students we have created mini-projects which are fun and interesting which they can access independently and work on them without disrupting or being bored. they can also share their presentations with the class afterwards and that is GREAT LEARNING!
Who can Participate?
Who can Participate?
Any JHS student with a high level (not necessarily a native speaker) of English sitting in a regular English class.
What's really nice about the REED Challenges is that they have a consistent structure:
Introduction
Dig in!
Get Creative!
How do you do it?
How do you do it?
Identify the students in your class who are more advanced than the material you are teaching
Have a meeting with them (usually 304 kids maximum) during one of your partani lessons - with a computer.
Explain to them that you do not want them to be bored and that they can work together or in pairs
You would like them to share what they have learned with the class and that each challenge includes some sort of presentation .
Go through one of the challenges with them.
Give them a deadline for how much they should be accomplishing each lesson. Each challenge should be about 2 weeks worth of work.
Allow them (if possible) to sit with a laptop or be in the library for some of the time.
Send out a letter to their parents explaining how you will be enriching their English this year.
If there are students in multiple classes, see if they can be coordinated to work together or present together to the shichva after a few challenges have been completed.
Encourage them to have fun and present in a fun class way.
DO NOT LOSE TRACK OF THEM. Make sure they come to you either during or after the lesson to keep you up to date and ask questions.
YOU ARE STILL TEACHING THEM. You are not forgetting about them because they look "busy".
If you cannot get to them during class time, set aside a partani hour to meet with them.
Using the site
Using the site
Click on the REED Challenges to get to the site!
Click on the REED Challenges to get to the site!
Go into the site
Read through the information on the intro page.
Look at the top right of the screen - see the names of the months
Each month has TWO (2) challenges - sometimes more.
Open up the first one in September: Superhuman Day
Go through the unit with them - let them ask questions.
Send them off to work.
Share your Final Products!!
Share your Final Products!!
Let's create a REED Challenges community.
Share your students' final products to the REED Challenges Googlesite, and see what other schools have shared as well. In some schools, students are already creating their own REED challenges, based on their own interests. We will share these in a student corner.
After you've tried a few, make up your own Challenges for the rest of the class!
Be sure to share them with us!!!
Maybe we'll include them on the site! Send your Challenges to southernreed@gmail.com
Include school name, teacher name, and student names.
Do you have products that you want to share on this site? Pictures, clips, posters? Send them to us.
Note: if there your products have your faces in them, please get permission from your parents to share.
Read these two articles to learn more about independent learning and challenging your strong students
Read these two articles to learn more about independent learning and challenging your strong students
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