March 2012
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Too Cruel For School of the Day: Bullying of gay teens at high schools across the country is a serious problem. But what do you do when the biggest anti-gay bully at the school is the principal?
Dorothy Bond, head of Haywood High School in Brownsville, Tennessee, has stirred controversy in her community for allegedly telling gay students at the school they are going to hell.
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Discussions in character
An effective way to use Twitter is to have students tweet in character. Let’s look at a specific example based upon Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Divide your class into groups of about five students each and have a Romeo and Juliet tweetup. Assign each group a unique hashtag (i.e. #chsenglit11 for CHS English Literature Period 1 Group...
Winter Blog - Entry 6: Mosaic Classroom
Winter Blog - Entry 6: Mosaic Classroom
The following post is on the topic of religion.
I stumbled across the above video (or click here) and think it’s really neat. First because I LOVE spoken word, but also because it presents a cool perspective that I don’t necessarily agree with, but definitely appreciate. I’d like to use this video as a prelude for this blog post on...
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Winter Blog - Entry 5: WHY AREN'T I GIFTED?
Winter Blog - Entry 5: WHY AREN’T I GIFTED?
This post is in response to our class on Intellectual Exceptionalities.
I remember the first time I heard the term “Gifted.” I remember that, in my head, it was synonymous to “smart.” Or perhaps “smarter.” I remember that friends of mine were pulled from my class to be tested. I wasn’t. I cried about it.
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follow your bliss: Mark Twain’s replies to the... →
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Mark Twain’s replies to the reporter who called to interview him:
QUESTION. Isn’t that a brother of yours? ANSWER. Oh! yes, yes, yes! Now you remind me of it, that WAS a brother of mine. That’s William—BILL we called him. Poor old Bill!
Q. Why? Is he dead, then? A. Ah! well, I suppose so. We…
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“There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is...”
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February 2012
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Dancing Makes You Smarter - As a dance teacher, I... →
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who...”
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Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
When I tagged eating disorders to find some posts to compliment by latest Blog Post, I was disgusted at some of the stuff I found… tons of pictures and text posts glorifying and encouraging eating disorders… Glad tumblr is doing something about it!
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One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being...
Winter Blog - Entry 4: Troubled Teens
Winter Blog - Entry 4: Troubled Teens
This post is in reference to the class on Death/Grief/Body Image.
One of the biggest fears I have when I think about my future and working with I/S students is that I won’t be able to help my students, these teenagers, with their “teenager” issues. Beyond some minor bullying and the death of a girl in the grade above me, I had a pretty easy...
P/J and I/S
Printing and Jumping and Interruptions and Sex… haha. Great Guest Speaker in PROF today! Kudos to Kelly Dear.
Winter Blog - Entry 3: LGBTTIQQ2S WTF?
Winter Blog - Entry 3: LGBTTIQQ2S WTF?
I just want to point out that my title for this post is taken right from our guest speaker, Kelly Dear… so pardon the (acronym-ed) french, but I don’t think I could have come up with a better way to sum things up.
I took a lot from yesterday’s presentation. In fact, I spent the next hour and a half repeating everything I could remember...
Winter Blog - Entry 2: ASD Options… Why not for...
Winter Blog - Entry 2: ASD Options… Why not for ALL?
When we talked about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) last week in PROF class, I couldn’t help but think that at some times, in some ways, we could have been talking about ALL students, not just students with ASD. I found this to be true especially when we talked about the obsessions and talents specific to many students with ASD. What student...
Death, Grief and Suicide/Body Image Make-up...
Death, Grief and Suicide/Body Image Make-up Assignment
Reading: Hospice – Talking to Children About Death
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“… death, the one certainty in all life, is life’s greatest uncertainty. Coming to terms with death can be a lifelong process. We may find different answers at different stages of our lives, or we may always feel a sense of...
When someone erases the board while you're still...
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Winter Blog - Entry 1: "PARDON?"
Winter Blog - Entry 1: “PARDON?”
This post is a response to our class on English Language Learners.
How can I accommodate an ELL student? I’m sure to have English Language Learners in my class at some point. What can I do to facilitate their learning?
In the class on ELL, a play that I read in my Children’s Theatre course last semester kept coming to mind: New Canadian...
