I’m conducting a bold experiment. Six weeks ago I started teaching a new elective for our third trimester. Even though Mistletoe Elementary is a STEM school, I have more ideas than time, so I offered to teach an elective simply called “STEM”. On the first day, two dozen 6th through 8th grade students arrived, and the first one in the door asked, “How are you going to grade this class?” I answered honestly, “I don’t know; I haven’t thought about it.” Now a month and a half later, I have not issued any grades, yet the students rush to class each day, work from the moment they arrive, complain when they have to stop and clean up, and I have had zero students off task and no behavior problems.
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