What Classes Need
More creativity.
In language class, all you write are things limited and restricted to these ways to do things, and it does get annoying at times because generally I think too much on the stuff that I have to force into it, than the actual writing itself. I would love it if one assignment was a "Free Writing" and you just type up a story, spell check it, grammar check it, give it a creative appearance, and get graded on the quality of the work, and the useage of words and phrases. It'd be just so much more fun, rather than "Read this. Write this, this way, no exceptions." It kills the creativity.
In Science, the labs that are constructed are pretty creative, but why not have a thing when the students get to design a lab to do, in order to figure something out? Let them use what would be needed to be used and grade it based off of the results, and the presentation of how it is done.
Social Studies, perhaps have an assignment where you have to write up a historically accurate story based around an era of time? Like a story of the battles during the Civil War, or Revolutionary War. Or, just in general allow the students to design their own project, but in order to design the project it'd have to fit with the current area of learning, and display creativity as well as effort, along with correct facts. It'd be fun.
Math can't be helped =P
Unless you used the more advanced forms of the subject in order to determine where a rocket you set off would generally land, or something that involves going outside and shooting something
Art, I'd say allow more free draw periods, and not just several hundred projects where you have to draw a certain item. Like, learn a technique, but draw your own drawing and add the newly learned technique into the picture, rather than doodling boring things.
Those are the classes that I have/had that could be spruced up in the creative sector a bit. It'd be more fun, at least, I believe so and so does most of the student body.
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