Posted in Lessons Learned, Practice on Dec 31st, 2007 4 Comments »
cross-posted from Creating Lifelong Learners
Listening to one teacher talk for six hours a day can be boring for anyone. If you have limited English language experience, as many Title I students do, it can be torturous and incomprehensible. Rather than bemoan students’ lack of interest, how about changing your act? You can make content [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned on Nov 13th, 2007 1 Comment »
Recently, I spent a day with a first-year teacher in a school very different from mine. Arriving before the students, I did not notice anything surprising. However, as soon as the students began trickling in I could see that this was not the population with which I am familiar. These students were almost all white, [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Policy on Nov 4th, 2007 11 Comments »
In Forced Diversity « The Elementary Educator Third Grade Teacher considers that attempts at diversity and diversity trainings are a waste of time. I, politely disagree.
First, I have discussed this in a prior blog post, Things I’ve learned while teaching black children… The Blog of Ms. Mercer. Here is an excerpt from that, but don’t [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Practice on Oct 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
I am fortunate to teach in a phenomenal school. One colleague has remarked that we are ‘nitwit free’; something I think is true and shockingly rare. My own children will attend my school because I believe strongly in the high level of instruction there.
Our administration supports the staff completely, listens to us, and is [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Practice on Sep 29th, 2007 7 Comments »
INS agents raided all the McDonald’s in the greater Reno area Thursday and arrested numerous employees for being in the country illegally. At my school a number of parents came and removed their kids from school so that police would not come and get them - or so that the students wouldn’t go home and [...]
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