Leadership: Wednesday, Period 1, Class 8 (3/4/09)

[1petrelli1.livejournal.com]

"Once you've defined the problem you need to develop an action plan," Nathan said as he passed around that week's handouts. "Your action plan is the steps you are going to take in order to solve this problem. Today I want you to get into groups and develop an action plan to solve a problem.

"The problem is this: As a group, you want to convince me not to give you guys a final exam. Put your heads together - not literally - and come up with a plan for how you're going to convince me to do that. For the record, the odds that I'm going to agree with you are pretty small, but for the sake of the class let's see what you come up with."

Nathan grinned at them. "I'm here if you have any questions."

[ooc: OCD is up!]

Comments

Re: Group 1

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"No final for us means less work for him," Dōjima announced as she grabbed a seat. "Rather than put all the effort into thinking something up, writing it, getting it copied, and then needing to grade it, that's all time that could be spent solving world hunger or something."

"Besides, there's those experts that claim a standardized test doesn't actually measure learning, so he should just grade us on how he feels we know the topic."

Re: Group 1

[weetuskenraider]

"Something practical that puts our skills to use, instead of just a test?" Tahiri chimed in distractedly.

Re: Group 1

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Well, would the test be standardized, then?" Inara asked, feeling them getting a little off topic. "Plus, it sounds like it would be a lot of work to come up with a situation that makes it possible to grade us on based our own merits and experience, especially when we all have such varying skill levels."

She considered Professor Petrelli from her seat. "Does anyone know Professor Petrelli? What might make him change his mind about something?"