At its best, education broadens the way students view the world and their place in it.
Photo: http://saintdrexel.org/resources/caring-connections/ It’s the middle of the school year. At this point, the enthusiasm that started your year may have waned a bit, dimmed by a combination of weariness and reality. After all, you know your students quite well by now. You know who is eager to comply and who is a behavioral challenge. The …
Photo: https://www.plu.edu/marcom/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2016/02/lincoln-hs-1-26-161099-1024x683.jpg Most educators know that students learn more with teachers who have a strong and caring relationship with them. However, what’s often overlooked, particularly on the secondary level, is the importance of equally strong and healthy relationships among the students. After all, students are people first, and people simply do best when they can …
Photo: https://corkboardconnections.blogspot.com/2013/07/classroomfamily.html One of the many reasons I became a teacher was that I genuinely liked being with kids all day—even teenagers. While people often responded with horrified looks when they discovered that I did, in fact, teach teenagers, I always said, “Well, somebody has to like them! And I do.” They were more than …
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