I wanted to share a thought about my teaching. I've got these 16-17 year olds who have never been very academically successful. However, it's amazing to see them work on something they are really interested in. I've decided to adapt the curriculum a bit, and instead of exercises and exams all the time they are doing the subject through assigments which bring in elements of what they are really interested in; for example music, history of punk and so on.

As I teach computers, they are doing power points and creating blogs. We´ve already seen windows and although I should have carried on for another two weeks, I could feel they needed a change of focus and It is great to see how interested they are. And this is a class where it used to be a miracle if all of them turned up.