We remember someone who brought uncommon insights, taught us something exciting, shared some singular learning experience with us. We remember being a part of something exceptional. We remember activities, projects, experiments that were out of the ordinary routine of classroom lessons. Today we wonder how many of our students will recall us in that way. Today national business and media leaders call for dramatic changes in the ways students learn in our classrooms.
Columnists call for creative thinking, greater faculty involvement, and an openness to innovation.
More than ever we have a responsibility to find ways to bring energy and excitement to our classrooms. Its tools are radio dramatics and broadcast journalism. In it students collaborate in the writing and recording of dramatic adaptations of fairy tales, original narratives, short stories, chapters of novels, scenes from modern dramas, poetry, and Shakespeare. This program's whole language impact is multi-dimensional. It affects reading, writing, speaking, and listening in a variety of processes.