Really, I am trying.
I don’t usually write about my personal challenges as a teacher in this blog, but today I find myself needing to.
I started at a new school this September and was hired to teach and design a new program for older students (16-21) who are not expected to graduate.
I’m now teaching 14 students [...]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk]
I will be returning to the classroom at the end of August after a year as a special education consultant and professional development facilitator. I decided to return for a variety of reasons, the most important being that I miss the energy I pick up from daily contact with students and the next [...]
The Power of Personal RelationshipsBy Thomas S. Mawhinney and Laura L. SaganPhi Delta Kappan, March 2007
The essence, the very essence, of what I believe as an educator is summed up in this understanding:
We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in [...]
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