My school has an Academy. It’s meant for students who have graduated but cannot qualify for higher institutions of learning. So, we have a work-study program for them. They go out for work 3 days per week and come back to school to brush up their skills for the remaining two. And I’m their English teacher.
Today, they received their workplace literacy and numeracy results - and some of them failed to make the cut for numeracy. So, I thought I would design something that would help them process their feelings.
I turned to Magic School AI to generate a text to suggest ways in which my students could cope with their disappointment. 7 students, 7 paragraphs. I gave each student a subheading and asked them to locate the relevant paragraph.
Got them to sit in a circle and share their subheading and paragraph
Got them to draw a disappointed face and another confident face before listing out the different coping mechanisms as listed in their respective paragraph
Consolidated the main ideas in the form of a text cohesion passage
I hope my students are feeling better about their results now!
How about you?