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As Big As It Goes: Origami Art. Top Story - October 2017.
I slapped the giant piece of canvas onto the table, making half the class jump in surprise. It was early Wednesday morning, just a few weeks before summer vacation. Heat radiated off the blacktop of the basketball courts outside the art room. I couldn’t wait to start.
By Dalan Hartmann8 years ago in Education
How To Be Good at School
I watch her face glow with defiance as her jaw tightens to restrain her voice. Not hours later, I hear her screaming down the hallway, octaves above her usual pitch, with frustration. Our AP Literature teacher will never know the passionate disagreement she feels towards his analysis of The Stranger. He will never know that she believes the book to be closer held to Marxist theory, because she will never tell him that she sees no evidence supporting Mersault’s existentialism. Confinements and prescriptions struggle to infiltrate her imaginative ideation, but her headstrong skull refuses to let anything in or out. Her mask is built firmly with steel and she is sealed shut within. She clings to individuality underlying her fraudulent educational ideology.
By Amelia Clare Wright8 years ago in Education
Special Education in 2017
Today's education for students who have disabilities still has not improved enough to truly help them. Supposedly there are laws in place, but just try to challenge something that is wrong and see if they help you. They don't. All students who have disabilities have a right to privacy. No student should ever be forced into a situation where they are made to feel uncomfortable. How would you feel if your doctor told everyone that you have a disease? Students who have disabilities have advisors that are assigned to help them. The problem is that these advisors really have no authority to correct something if anything goes wrong. There is always a boss of a boss that is higher up than they are, so where does it end when students run into problems with a class? What should be solved in a few days turns into weeks of waiting. When this happens it adversely affects the students who are having problems.
By Lilli Adams8 years ago in Education
Monday Blues
Today was one of those teaching days. You going in all prepared and ready for your kids. It's Monday. You have the worksheets printed (or in my case a folder labelled "TO PRINT") you have your lessons planned. Your work ID left on the cupboard at home but you You have your coffee mug ready and raring to go.
By Mel Dobson8 years ago in Education
Pardon Me, But Your Teaching Is Getting In The Way Of My Acting
A young man walks into an acting class for the first time. Though he’s new to acting classes, he’s already somewhat of an accomplished actor. Prior to taking an acting class of any kind, he’s acted in dozens of productions in theater, film, and television. He introduces himself to the class, and then...
By Vince Bandille8 years ago in Education
10 Things New Teachers Need to Know
You've gone through numerous education courses all showing you how to be the best teacher for your students. But now the day has come — first day of school as a teacher. Even after all those courses, actually being a teacher is totally different from what you've learned in college. Honestly, it's like that for most majors.
By Jacqueline Hanikeh8 years ago in Education
Fight for Our Kids' Health
For the last several days, my daughter has come home with tales of her school lunch experiences. She has been in school just over a week and already is afraid she will starve during her school day if she doesn’t take her own lunch. Today, for example, she wasn’t even given enough food to keep her body functioning through PE class. I must admit, this broke my heart.
By Vanessa Cherron Riser8 years ago in Education
