My name is Mr. Laythorpe(Jeff) and I am an elementary teacher in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I teach a grade 4 class that is taking on a big project this year and we call it our Passion Project.
The idea came from a chance meeting last school year with a guy by the name of Kevin Brookhouser. What Kevin talked about was this 20% time project that he discovered in doing some research about Google. You see Google gives their employees a lot of amazing benefits but they also provide them with a chance to work on a project of their choice and allow them the time and resources to work on this project. This is how some things like PayPal and Gmail came to fruition.
After, meeting Kevin and then coughing up $20 to get his book about this awesome class adventure. I was inspired to try a similar project with my grade four students.
Am I worried as to how this is going to work out? Absolutely.
Is it going to be tiring? for sure!
Is it worth it? YES.
This has the chance to really make an impact with my students. I can't wait to see how it goes.
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