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Here is one of my journal entries from this week, April 30th...
We teach the different holidays to our first graders- its part of our curriculum. Cinco de Mayo is this coming weekend so we have been doing a bunch of fun activities with the kids in class. I have 2 ELL kids in my class who feel so special that we are taking the time to learn some things about their heritage and culture. All of the kids are having a blast learning color words and names of things. Most of the kids already know how to count to 10 in Spanish. We have our high school Spanish 3 kids coming in to teach our kids some other things in Spanish this week. The kids are so excited about it! And- I get to see some of my former 5th graders being teachers to my first graders.
4/15/07 Reading with my daughter…her latest Patricia Polacco fave is "Mr. Lincoln’s Way".
Connecting with even the most difficult to reach students, in this case, connecting via birds in the atrium….ducklings
Book also covers bullying, racism…
Later in the evening my daughter was completely fascinated with flocks of birds flying overhead and our daffodils just starting to bloom…sheer joy (!) in her environment. Relates to those AHA moments in the classroom, when my students feel connected to their living world…a place for all creatures!
April 16th, 2007
My wife and I went to Tucson for a conference that she had in the medical field and it was a great trip for us as a family and she was really inspired by the meetings / classes. On the trip I talked to some of the doctors and nurse practitioners about these conferences and about some of the visits that they do to other hospitals and clinics. The places that their health care employers send them and the extent of their emphasis on learning from others and making each conference special is something that we really lack in education. I know we have some good conferences in the state and I have been to a few; however are our principals / superintendents in a position to send us to other schools for a week or two to learn from them? Do we have the funding to provide travel for our educators to attend big teaching conferences? There is no way we can currently afford this in our field. I think that our focus as a society on education is terrible. This field should be the best trained and most funded program in the state!
Entry #6
Had an issue today dealing with discipline. A particularly unruly girl was acting up and needed to be removed from class. I gave clear instructions to the Juvenile Corrections Officer to remove the individual. In the past, this student 99.9% of the time when she is removed from class refuses to leave, becomes very violent, and the JCO’s must take her down and take her back to her room in shackles. Knowing this, the JCO did not respond to my instructions. There are times in which there may be a delay in a student being removed due to other traffic in the hallways or a JCO being momentarily unavailable. Several minutes past, then several more. The JCO never called for removal of the student. I spoke with her after class away from the students and understood her reasoning that she wanted to avoid a 10-1(Emergency call in which all JCO’s are summoned) being called and since the girl was doing better left her in class. It was probably for the best knowing her history, but I do not like being second guessed or ignored.
I do group once a week with a group of freshmen boys and we have been working on study skills and the preparation for 10th grade. We often talk about their own expectations and those around them. It is wonderful to discuss their dreams and goals while working on their present objectives. The idea that they have control of the situation is quite novel to them. So, we continue to work their own beliefs and transitions. Hey, only 558 days till they graduate.
A humorous journal entry.
During a high jump session with my 6th graders, I had no volunteers to demonstrate how to get over the bar. I decided to show them. While demonstrating, I accomplished my goal. While attempting to show them how to clear the bar, I fell and landed smack on top of the bar;(I'm not 25 years old anymore). As I slowly got up, I smiled and said, if I can try and somehow eventually get over and succeed, anyone can. They laughed, but followed with enthusiam & success.
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