Children who live in http://theeducatorsroom.com/2013/05/working-in-a-high-poverty-environment/poverty need additional support when they attend school. According to a recent article in the Washington Post a majority of public school students are living in poverty. This is based on statistics from the 2013-2014 school year which showed that the number of students receiving free or reduced lunch is now […]
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Harper Lee's Impact on My World
In early 1998, I sat in my Honors 9th Grade Literature Class with several of my friends. So far that year, we had already discussed our summer reading, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, read works by Edgar Allen Poe, and play-acted Romeo and Juliet. Now, we were going to start a book that […]
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Why Keeping Financial Aid for Students is Important
While everyone is feeling the strain of tighter budgets, in the government goes to public education to fill in the deficient. The first question is why is education the first budget to be cut? One is because education does not technically produce anything tangible. Another reason is the so-called idea that education is a privilege, […]
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Life in the Middle… School That Is!
For many students success in middle school can determine whether or not they can navigate high school and leave with a diploma. This fact means that we as middle school teachers should guide our students to think on their own and make wise choices. While teaching 8th grade, I would begin the year giving more […]
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Hold That Pen! 5 Things to Try Before a Write-Up
Classroom management is a huge part of being an effective teacher. In many schools, administrators judge effectiveness with classroom management by the number of times you write-up a student. Aside from this fact, there are several good reasons not to write students up and send them to the office. First of all, if you write-up a student […]
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Failure is not an Option: The Interactive Approach to Learning
So many articles out there lately talk about the downfalls of education and the humiliation of the public school teacher. The question is, do we have the resources out there to help those struggling students–the ones in urban areas living in poverty–to meet the same standards as their peers? If you ask my boss, the […]
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It's Time Teachers Curb Homework
Yesterday, my wife came home with her laptop bag. Again. And it’s not her fault. After working another 9-hour day, that wasn’t enough. She had to put in a bit more time to finish off a few projects so that they were ready for the clients in the morning. My wife doesn’t regularly do this […]
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What Do You Do When The Teacher Is The Bully?
by:John Sucich Early in my teaching career, I was told by an administrator that she had asked one of my students how he would describe me. “Strict,” was the student’s reply. It was all very matter-of-fact. The administrator was just letting me know, not sending me any kind of message. And the student had me […]