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Reading the INTASC Principles made me think of how well rounded the principles really are. They talk about helping the students improve intellectually, socially, and personally. It talks about how all students are individuals that respond in different ways to different things. We need to be able to oversee there projects while helping them grow in several ways. This corresponds directly with texts and literacy that we talked about before. If we help the children look at things from different perspectives and help them create something of their own in an environment that is safe and watched over, it will allow them to grow in many different ways. They will learn to be responsible adults that can contribute to society because they are used to contributing in a class room. It made me think of a way that I feel would fulfill the different INTASC Principles while also allowing them to create texts for themselves. This is assigning them to be on a production team for the different plays that are going on. We will switch the roles they play so they can experience different ways of thinking about and creating texts. But through having them work together they are not only developing intellectually, but socially through collaboration. It will also help them gain confidence and learn to be practitioners through these professional like relationships.