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What would you guys say to teachers

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if they are not getting high quality work?

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Could they learn something from this?

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Or would you say they would learn differently in the classrooms?

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This is the story called Austin's Butterfly.

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And it's a true story about a first grade boy, and his name is Austin.

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And he goes to school, or used to go to school in a town called Boise, Idaho.

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And in his class in Boise, Idaho, they were studying butterflies and he had to do a project.

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His job in the first grade was to draw a butterfly.

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And this is the butterfly that he picked.

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Austin had to use this photograph as his model,

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and he had to draw an accurate scientific drawing of this butterfly.

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This is called a Tiger Swallowtail.

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Student: I knew it!

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Can you tell Toby why it's called tiger?

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Student: Because it kinda has the stripes of a tiger right there.

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Good. So, here was Austin's job.

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He was supposed to do a scientific drawing of that butterfly,

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but remember Austin was only in first grade.

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And you know what he did?

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He forgot to look like a scientist carefully.

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He got his paper and he just started to draw the image of butterfly that he had in his head.

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And he wasn't looking like a scientist, and so this is what he drew.

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It's not bad! And it is a butterfly.

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But does it look exactly like this?

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Students: No...

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No, it doesn't yet.

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It doesn't look exactly like this yet.

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Luckily, this wasn't the regular school where Austin went.

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It was an expeditionary learning school just like Presumpscot School.

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And so they didn't look at this and say, "Good Austin! You're done!"

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They said, "Austin, good start! Now we can start giving you critiques,

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so you can do a second draft and make it better."

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And a third draft and make it better and you can make it much much closer to this.

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And he was ready to go.

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All of the first graders in his critique group sat on the floor like you guys are.

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And they decided to split their advice into two kinds.

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First, just the shape of the wings.

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And then when the shape was right, they give him advice about pattern inside the wings.

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Aulia, what would you say?

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You could make it much pointier.

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Good! These wings could be much pointier.

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Who else would add something?

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Etak, what would you say?

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How about the angle?

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Because, not to be mean about the angle, it's just not exact. So, uh...

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Okay! Show me! Come up here, Etak!

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Show me where...what you would like to ask him to do just slightly differently.

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Uh, like to make it little longer?

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Longer where? Draw where you would do it.

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Like right there.

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Okay, so pull this out longer?

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Yeah.

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That's very specific, Etak. Thank you.

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Jemilla, what would you say?

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It's like... like...a... triangle?

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Good. Jemilla, I love that. So you are saying more like a triangle shape. And I agree.

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Well you know what, those first graders came up with most of those same ideas.

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And you know what Austin said?

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He said, "Ok! I will go try. And he went back to his seat. And he drew this!"

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Wow! Wow~

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Does this look more like a triangle?

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Yeah...yeah.

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Did he go out further like what Etak was suggesting?

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Yeah...yes.

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Did he add some jaggedness here, (yes) like Cindy?

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Did he get rid of that bottom thing?

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Yes.

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So he did listen to his friends and he made it better.

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It's not perfect. Toby, what would you say?

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I would say don't put those little tail things so pointed in, I would say put them more pointed down.

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Good! Ok. Ethan, what would you say?

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I think you should make the wings more like this, not like this.

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Okay.

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He listened to his friends, and they said this is really a lot better Austin.

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That second draft really is better.

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Maybe he can make a third one.

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Good! Maybe he can make a third draft.

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And so he did this draft.

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That's his third draft.

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That's his third draft. Hadley, that's just right.

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Elijah, what do you notice there?

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One wing is more of a pointed than the other. And that side is a little bit higher than the others.

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Good.

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Cobern?

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Right here, it doesn't have the inside thing still.

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Ah! Okay! It needs a little bit more that notch.

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So, do you think maybe he should do a fourth draft?

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Students: Yeah!

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Well, that's just what he said.

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He said, "Shoot! Okay. I got round again, I will go back and do the fourth draft."

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He listened!

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He listened! Does it look more even like what Elijah was suggesting?

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Yes! Yeah!

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And does it look like coming out a little sharper like Cindy was suggesting?

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And like Etak was saying, the angle looks a little better.

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So now Austin was feeling really good.

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He said, " Am I ready to add some pattern?"

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And they said, "Okay. Why don't you try adding some of the pattern?"

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And he did!

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He's good at it.

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He's so good.

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And then they said, "Austin, you are ready for color."

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Let's look at his last draft.

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And what do you think? Did it come out really good?

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Students: Yeah! Yeah!

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Let me show you where he started, just to give you a quick reminder.

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And then, what do you think about how much progress he made?

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Etak, what would you say about his progress?

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He made a lot of progress.

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He persevered doing it.

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Um, his friends were honest with him.

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What was about the kinds of advice that they gave that allowed him to get better each time?

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Assahn?

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Well, they told him what was wrong about it.

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Did they said it was just wrong or were they more specific than that?

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They were more specific, but they weren't mean about it.

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Great!

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Hadley.

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He made six drafts.

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And so is that something that other kids should learn from?

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What should we learn from that?

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You can make other drafts if it's not right.

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Good.

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So if it's not right, you can keep doing more drafts to make it better.

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And you just don't use things in your head,

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you want to use sharp eye.

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Good! He used the eyes of a scientist.

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Great.