Tag: teaching
member name: Kevin E.
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August 17, 2008 06:39 PM EDT --
Friday was my first discouraging day of my school year. On the tenth day of our new school year a new student came to my class. He is 15. He suffered traumatic brain injury when he was a baby. . . .
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August 09, 2008 05:51 PM EDT --
Open house for incoming ninth graders is always fun. Parents are more confused than the new freshman. Often the unexpected is said by those who are quite thankful that they are not the ones going through . . .
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August 11, 2008 10:24 PM EDT --
My heart has been heavy today because when I arrived at school Thursday I learned that only an hour earlier a former student who graduated from our high school a short two years ago, was stabbed . . .
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August 18, 2008 11:29 PM EDT --
I wrote an article where I questioned if a student who came to my school was ready for school. This was a student who I was absolutely certain did not belong in school. I lost sleep over him and really . . .
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August 30, 2008 11:39 PM EDT --
I am being called the miracle man at my school these days. This is a result of some changes in a student I am working with. This is a student I wasn't even sure belonged in public school when I first . . .
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October 07, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
Connor did a wonderful job scaring a great many people that Halloween . Many of his classmates were among those we scare d and they were among the first in his clas s to totally accept him. . . .
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October 11, 2008 10:43 PM EDT --
Grandma came to visit my classroom two weeks ago. It was to be her last visit to my class. Her grandson was busy taking a puzzle apart when she came in. We both marveled at what a difference . . .
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June 22, 2009 11:49 PM EDT --
As many of my readers know I teach in one of the poorest counties in Georgia. A typical school year is anything but typical. Teaching goes beyond what those who are not a part of the education world can . . .
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August 20, 2009 10:53 PM EDT --
Yesterday I got injured while stopping a fight between two girls. I got hurt a bit lost two teeth and have aches and bruises . Nothing that can't be repaired but I am angry.
I am angry though I feel . . .
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October 07, 2008 09:44 PM EDT --
After a week we determined that it was time for Connor to get reconnected with school. The first step was to get Connor in to "Hospital Home Bound." This was a program for students . . .
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April 07, 2009 06:34 AM EDT --
I have had to take a month off from writing because of teaching related challenges which included three state wide assessment and being part of over forty special education parent meetings . It did not . . .
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February 22, 2009 01:02 PM EST --
"If your child attacks his teacher then so be it. Being attacked by a student is part of his teacher's job description ." This was a comment made by my Special Education Director to a . . .
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February 22, 2009 06:50 PM EST --
I love my career. There are lots of reasons that I enjoy teaching. The chief reason is being a part of a team to that helps young minds grow. That being said teachers are being assaulted in every school . . .
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May 25, 2009 08:14 PM EDT --
My informal study on those who read my writings show that they are brilliant people and have seen a lot in their lives. I am sure that my readers have seen a lot. I know that some have seen a horse fly, . . .
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October 21, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
I am a Special Education Department Chair at a rural High School in Georgia. I teach students who are moderate to profoundly disabled. I remember reading a book called Up The Down Stair Case . It gave . . .
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January 20, 2009 09:21 PM EST --
On the day after most of the United States celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday and the day of the inauguration of President Obama it seems appropriate to share a lesson I teach . . .
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