At this point, I prepared a bulletin board for parents, colleagues and other students. Our class took a field trip? to the space just outside our classroom to see what other people would be seeing of the children's work. I shared some thoughts about how they had been helping each other to work, and they asked me to read aloud every bit of text. Each child was represented by one picture. Along with being pleased to see their work displayed, they saw the connections from one piece to another.
They began to understand each discreet effort as a piece of developing a larger body of community work, their individual contributions as part of a larger whole.Documentation Examples > Examples of documentation shared back with learners
Creating a Culture of Critique
School: Edward Devotion School, Brookline, MA
4. Bulletin Board
Emily: How did Evelyn make the octopus?
Evelyn: I drew it then I cut it out, and I glued it on the side where the pencil was so you don't see the pencil.
Ms. Tonachel: When Myasia used a pencil and then cut it out, she decided that she wanted the pencil lines to show. I see pencil lines on lots of pictures. Evelyn thought, if I flip it over, the pencil lines won't show.
Myasia: And that's what I did! Cause there were pencil lines on there, so actually when I was not listening, I put it on the wrong side and that looks like I didn't draw any lines.
Juliette: How did Myasia make the seaweed?
Myasia: This one, I only cutted it out, and then the other one, I only used a pencil then I cut it out.
Ebony: I want to know how Myasia made that long, skinny shape.
Myasia: I made it because I wanted an eel. First, I drew the picture on the paper, the white piece of paper, then I cut it out.
Ms. Tonachel: So, Evelyn just used scissors, and Myasia used a pencil first and then used scissors.
Myasia: Yeah.
Emily: I wonder how Alison made that clownfish.
Alison: How I made the clownfish? The clownfish that I made was that I cut out the orange fish out of orange paper and then I cut out some white stripes, and then I glued the white stripes onto the orange fish, then I glued the orange fish onto the paper. And then I decided to make the bubbles another day, that were light blue.
Winston: Or another way you could do it is you could cut the face, cut that [section], cut that [section], and then you could leave them so white paper could?you could use the white paper as the white stripes.