| School teachers and their influence on the rest of your life | | Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 4:19:35 PM by Alex Molin | Today, as a parent having three children, I must say I admire all school teachers. They have to invest so much effort in their job like preparing lessons, grade papers and tests, fill out report cards, and meet with parents. 
But that's not all, they have to have an enormous patience towards kids, show them the right way, educate them so that they will eventually develop and become great human beings. When I was a child myself, I had a different point of view of course.
There were those teachers I admired but it wasn't because of the same reasons and to tell the truth, they were the minority. I hated some of my teachers (one in particular) and I had no special feelings towards most of them.
There is one thing for sure, I remember most of them and that says a lot about how teachers influence children. I think a teacher is someone who above all wants to share his love to children and help them get the skills and knowledge they need in order to have a great life.
A teacher is someone who is highly sensitive to the needs of others, and all these qualities are really worth admiring.
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| | | Cellphones with cameras, MP3 players growing headache for Canada's ... | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:21:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | TORONTO (CP) - They play music, receive e-mail, access the Internet - and are wreaking such havoc in classrooms across Canada that some frustrated teachers and administrators are calling on school boards and governments for a crackdown on cellphones in school. For many students, cellphones are a must-have accessory. Teachers, however, consider them a menace that not only disrupt class by ringing all the time, but also pose serious privacy concerns and make it far too easy for students to cheat on exams. "Every year there is some new advancement of the technology that we have to deal with," said Irene Lanzinger, vice-president of the B.C. Teachers Federation. "It's amazing how much change we've seen over the last 10 years in what kids have and what they bring to a classroom.... | |
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| | | Teachers make presence felt at meetings | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:12:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | Monday marked the Anchorage School Board's first meeting in its new space, and despite the room being nearly twice as big as the old one, disgruntled teachers still managed to pack the place. They've become a fixture at School Board meetings -- usually clad in purple, the official color of the Anchorage Education Association, and often waving signs and wearing pins that say, "No contract, still working." While dozens and even hundreds of the roughly 3,400 members of the AEA show up to the meetings, a handful typically testify, venting about the fact that they have been working without a contract since June 31, 2006, and that what the district has offered to them isn't good enough. And at recent meetings, parents have testified too -- like Wendy Gellert, who told the board Monday that she's impressed by teachers at Inlet View Elementary, where her children attend school and she presides over the Parent Teacher Association.... | |
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| | | Catholic school teachers to join IR protests | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 1:15:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | Following criticism by the Prime Minister of government school teachers who plan to join tomorrow's national protests against workplace laws, unions for teachers in Catholic and independent schools have confirmed that thousands of private school staff are also expected to participate. Prime Minister John Howard had earlier described Victorian government school teachers' plans to participate in the nationwide protests as giving government schools a bad name, the Australian reports. "Victoria has the highest percentage of school students enrolled in independent and Catholic schools than anywhere (in the country)," Mr Howard said. "This action by Victorian teachers will further reduce the esteem of the government education system in the eyes of Victorian parents.... | |
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| | | Big Foot teachers: No confidence in Nykl | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:13:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | WALWORTH-In two letters read to the Big Foot School Board on Monday night, students and teachers expressed frustrations with Superintendent Thomas Nykl. The teachers reported no confidence in Nykl, and students said they "fear" him. "Mr. Nykl has sent kids out of his room crying by belittling their math skills," said senior Brianna Kinney, reading from the students' letter. "He is also supposed to care, and he has not shown that to us, either." Nykl apologized for misunderstandings created or missteps taken and said he was aghast at the implications that he was untrustworthy and uncaring. "I'm sorry I came across as a person who didn't care," Nykl said. "I love the kids." Nykl said he's put his heart and soul into his work and wants to work with the teachers.... | |
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| | | Technology-academy proposal provokes anger at high school | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 3:41:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | A proposal to bring a technology-focused academy into Rainier Beach High School has angered some parents, students and teachers who say the Seattle School District should have long ago improved the program that already exists. Dozens of people packed a community meeting last week to protest the "school within a school" idea — a science, technology, engineering and math academy for 6th- through 12th-graders. The nonprofit group that put the proposal forward, Technology Access Foundation, plans to set up five of these academies in communities of color, where students sometimes struggle to succeed. The idea has run into resistance at Rainier Beach, in part because parents only recently found out about it by chance. The district has been in discussions with the foundation for the past year but had not told the community.... | |
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| | | School Board Approves A Three-Year Teachers' Pact | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:37:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | "It isn't the money, it's the message," stressed Newtown Middle School teacher Cathy Cincogrono. She stood in front of the Board of Education for the first time in her 32 years in the district to talk about problems she saw with the proposed three-year teachers' contract. Roughly two hours from the time she appealed to members to reconsider the document's ratifications, she would listen as they unanimously accepted the proposal. Her concerns were not shared by teacher Candi Dietter, who had been part of the contract negotiations and had expressed confidence in the pact. After the meeting concluded and guests stepped back into the evening's chilly rain, Ms Dietter said, "I think we got the best contract we could get." Although quieted by then, emotions had been strained earlier that night before the board reached its conclusion.... | |
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| | | Fairborn Teachers, School Board Meet With Mediator | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:16:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | A federal mediator is expected to meet Tuesday with Fairborn teachers and members of the school board in a last-minute effort to avoid a strike. The meeting is expected to begin at 1 p.m. at the Board of Education building. Both sides said they do not want to see a strike; however, both sides said they are preparing for a walkout. Superintendent Dave Scarberry said the district is taking steps to make sure school doors stay open if teachers walk on Nov. 15. The district is also looking for substitute teachers by placing an ad in the Dayton Daily News. The district has also hired a security firm. Scarberry said he had to protect the districts equipment, but the teachers said they are frustrated because it is keeping them from doing their jobs.... | |
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| | | German School teachers join in Holocaust education effort | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:31:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | A group of local teachers walked together through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and spent hours discussing how to teach children about the event. It was the second year the trip was organized by the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center, based in Purchase, and the first time that the group included teachers from the German School New York. "For me, the most impressive and moving thing on the whole trip was the exchange between the American teachers and us as Germans, especially between Jews and Germans," said Guenter Zloch, a German School instructor. As a high school teacher in Germany, he led students on school trips to concentration camps. "You're studying the whole thing, the Holocaust, the subject," Zloch said of his work there, "and you never see a Jew." At the museum, he read documents without the distance caused by translation, and recognized the same bureaucratic language used in Germany today.... | |
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| | | Faulty furnace forces evacuation of Fuller School | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:39:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | A faulty seal around a heating gasket forced hundreds of Milton L. Fuller Elementary School pupils and staff members to evacuate the building for nearly an hour yesterday morning after teachers reported smoke in the building. "We were able to isolate the problem quickly," Deputy fire Chief Phil Dench said. "We spent most of the time walking the school with CO (carbon monoxide) detectors to make sure there was nothing in the air." The evacuation was prompted by a faulty gasket around one of the school's two furnaces, which allowed smoke to escape into the building, Assistant School Superintendent Brian Tarr said. The problem was corrected before classes ended yesterday and the furnace was back in working order, he added. The evacuation began shortly after 10:30 a.m. when teachers noticed smoke on the first floor of the building near the gymnasium and music room, according to Fuller Principal Sue Ellen Hogan, who said the smoke condition was similar to fog.... | |
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| | | Middle school teachers make sure it adds up | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:11:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | While some may complain about the bureaucracy of public education, it's really a testament to the efficiency of the area's schools that middle school teachers have quickly developed hands-on activities to improve students' understanding of mathematics. These efforts, as reported by Jennifer Berghom of The News & Advance, ramped up last month after disappointing results on standardized math tests for state sixth, seventh and eighth graders statewide. Dozens of schools throughout the state missed benchmarks because of low test scores in mathematics; in Central Virginia, four middle schools didn't earn full state accreditation in math. Instead of arguing about the validity of the tests or urging for some type of curve, the teachers banded together and figured out ways to better prepare their students for test-taking.... | |
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