Ponder
Click a link below to hear comments from students and parents looking back on the experience of making and playing "What Would YOU Do?", a peer pressure, bullying-awareness project developed with 4th and 5th graders in Cinnaminson, NJ's "Project Challenge" gifted and talented program*.
Studenst comment on:
•What We Learned
•Purpose and Value
•Decision Process & Consequences
•Coming up with Scenarios
Parents comme on:
•The Importance of DOING
• Positive Effects of Playing
•What "game" teaches participants and players
• About the "Do and Learn" process
*Project Challenge was founded and taught by the highly regarded and inspiring Elaine Mendelow until she retired in 2010. She has been president of the NJ Association for Gifted Children mutliple times and has been a role model for many teachers of the Gifted & Talented. Her classroom was the unofficial DoAndYouWillLearn "laboratory" for 3 years!