PITMAN – Don’t expect open books, flash cards or a teacher scribbling on a blackboard in Pitman Middle School’s newest course.
In the Makerspace, a required weekly course period for all students, you’ll find supervising teachers encouraging kids to explore video games by creating one. You’ll see kids huddled around brain-busting puzzles, or clustered at a crochet station.
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When the bell rings, and middle schoolers come whizzing into the classroom, they bring with them smiles, enthusiasm and ideas for projects they’re passionate about — from YouTube video series to sewing projects.
The passion-project tinkering is the truest gauge of what the sixth- through eighth-grade students have learned across all subjects in their school careers, principal Kristen Stewart told the Courier Post.
“They are driving their own…
