This project, which involves ten steps before completion and presentation, weaves in and out of the on-going decade study. The in-depth project reveals how students, alone or in collaboration settings, create and produce knowledge that has value to their own lives. The in-depth study of a decade involves developing and testing of theories in a climate of mutual respect. Learning occurs best in open, active classrooms where students are empowered by their own reading and writing, sharing and showing, questioning and examining, creating and performing. While the teacher establishes the climate, activates prior memory, and shares stories of the culture, the students must also teach each other.
Students share and defend position papers on popular books and films as decade artifacts.
The teacher and students dance and theorize together. They teach, they perform, they interact. They reveal their creations that go far beyond mere proving of competence. Student Performance and Learning and Assessment Evaluation must be considered as an essential part of interactive learning. We all need to know how we are doing, but we all need to be involved in evaluation.