Comments for Teachers At Risk

Comment on Listening to Music Helps Students Be More Productive in The Classroom by Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:49:19 +0000

Comment on What metaphor would you use to describe your teaching practice? by Bob Cole

Bob Cole — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:27:39 +0000

Elona, I saw that you found the slideshare deck with metaphors about teaching and learning. I had a message with some analytics on this presentation and was blown away that some 57K people had viewed it since it was uploaded. A great example of the power of the web for linking people and ideas. I may try to update the deck with some new ones since this was created with a group of faculty here at the Monterey Institute of International Studies back in 2008. Will be interesting to see if metaphors have shifted since then. Thanks for sharing with your audience.

Comment on Helping my students set goals the smart way by Shanta Viswanathan

Shanta Viswanathan — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:24:39 +0000

I am a supervisor for teaching and Learning. I want my high school students to understand the value of ‘Goal setting’ and how to go about doing the same. May I request for your presentation on the topic and the graphic organiser related to it. I would be very grateful if you could share any other resources that you have on Goal setting that would help my boys. Thanks a ton.

Comment on Helping my students set goals the smart way by Kellie Martini

Kellie Martini — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:44:46 +0000

Would love a copy of this power point! Thanks so much!

Comment on Do you ever feel as if you’re just a clog in the education system? by Elona Hartjes

Elona Hartjes — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:55:58 +0000

George,
I feel like teachers are just another resource, albeit a human resource for the schools to use how and when they see fit. It’s hard to make the best of it at times. I don’t know what to say. It’s not always easy to make the best of a bad situation.

Comment on Do you ever feel as if you’re just a clog in the education system? by George

George — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:38:24 +0000

Im going through a similar situation. Ive been with my disrict since 2005. I moved up from a aid and and got my temp contract. 1 angry parent and my contract doesnt get renewed. I was asked to teach a subject I knew nothing about and with several hot spots. Now its the end of the year and I get to help with behavior calls

Comment on Research finds the best study strategy for students is quizzes by Kristine

Kristine — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:08:53 +0000

I would love a copy. Thanks for sharing great and proven strategies.

Comment on What’s the point of high school anyway? by Elona Hartjes

Elona Hartjes — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:07:03 +0000

Shawn, I agree that parents should be educated enough in guiding their children but maybe that’s not the case with all parents. I’ve had parents ask me to guide them guiding their children,. Being a parent isn’t easy. Who prepares parents to be parents?

Comment on Do you ever feel as if you’re just a clog in the education system? by Elona Hartjes

Elona Hartjes — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:02:57 +0000

Lillian,
I know sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to do but I was especially annoyed that another teacher who was a trained chef and had experience teaching kids to cook didn’t want to teach these particular kids so I had to. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the kids, I just felt I wasn’t going to do a good job because I had no clue what to do and the kids would lose out.

Comment on Do you ever feel as if you’re just a clog in the education system? by Lillian Hopkins

Lillian Hopkins — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:02:37 +0000

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The experience of the cooking class would have been so bad for you and I understand that. But sometimes we have to perform certain tasks that we do not like or that we do not know because we just can’t do anything about it. The incident where the student had cut his finger with a knife would have been disastrous. Thanks for being honest and sharing this experience with us.
ith us.”