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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a HS teacher the reality is that few kids show up. Grades are in and finals have been taken. What kind of instruction do you really expect to take place?[/quote]

Have some imagination and teach some of the stuff you always wanted to but complain the SOL demands squeeze out.

If you teach a math class, have a couple of days on the stock market or personal finance. If you teach social studies, play the World Trade game. If you are in English, do a little reader's theater. This isn't hard.[/quote]

My kids charter (BASIS DC) does a school-wide version of this - called project week for the last week of school (finals are always second to last week).

A month or so before the end of school a project week syllabus comes out. Students rank their top 3 choices and are assigned one. Some are more academic than others, and some are executed better but there's a range of choices -- over our years at the school there have been camping trips, trips to Montreal and New York City, an anime unit, a dissection unit, art in the city, 'game of life' (personal finance/applying for jobs/college/paying taxes), history of video games. It's fun, no homework and most projects involve at least one field trip and a movie or two. It's a nice way for everyone to end the school year and students and teachers seem to really look forward to it.
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