June 2012
8 posts
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Uneasy
#politics #healthcare #equality
I feel a strange uneasiness about the political climate of our country, and not just about the goings on in Washington. People are truly divided, and angry. There are strong and polarizing ideas and ideals on the plate before us. I don’t know where to go with this. I don’t have a point to make. Just that I’m uncomfortable. Sides are becoming...
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0176: On the necessity of summer for #teachers
#education #teaching #summer #SOSchat
I’ve never, in my time as a teacher, reflected on the necessity of summer beyond my typical “I’m taking a break!” Summer has always been an important time for me to disappear from the stresses of testing and somewhat forget that I’m a stressed out teacher at the end of the year who needs to hibernate for a few months before...
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0175: #Teaching is
#education #learning #SOSchat
Teaching, regardless of the state of education as an institution, requires a choice to live beyond concern for the individual self. It is a vocation, that at some level, requires its participants to concern themselves with the wellbeing of humanity. Teaching is an act of love at its most base level. It seeks the good of others and society. There are numerous...
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0174: #Teaching, a noble profession? In a noble...
#education #SOSchat #occupyedu
A friend of mine and I were discussing an assessment class he is taking to complete his teacher certification. He said, “It feels like an homage to standardized testing, and everyone’s buying it—even the professor.” We’ve had numerous discussions along this line throughout his teacher education training. A topic that resurfaces time and...
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0173: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Saying 'No' for...
#education #firstyear #SOSchat
People face many challenges throughout their career. Saying ‘no’ is one of them. While it’s a mere two letter word, it can be one of the most difficult things to say. Many people never learn because they’re afraid (for a variety of reasons) or they never knew they could. Here’s your permission. It becomes harder to say it if you...
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The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum: The High Price... →
Must read comic on our education crisis
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The People's Record: Students in Texas to be... →
thepeoplesrecord:
A school district in Texas will be watching over its students a lot more closely, but not with the aid of extra teachers. Instead each pupil will be monitored with microchips.
Officials at the Northside Independent School District in rural Bexar County, Texas have approved a plan to track the…
Thoughts? The first step onto a slippery slope?
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0172: The Sullied Good We Do: Teachers as Cogs in...
By the very nature of our position as teachers we have the ability to do many wonderful things. We equally have the power to do great harm, with or without intention. Our system of compulsory education is at the very least imposing, beyond that it serves to colonialize and massify every soul that passes through its machinery.
These statements and ideas are bothersome as they serve to split me,...
