In reading Torey Hayden’s, Somebody Else’s Kids, several passages stood out to me, speaking to the humanity and inhumanity of the world and the obvious plausibility of a teacher’s ability to make a difference in a student’s life. Although many teachers struggle with the balance between their personal and professional lives, as with many professions, I would hope that a teacher would take their work home with them in some way. One passage that began a rather large pot of blood boiling inside me was one that approached disabled children as some sort of painless Martians: “The doctor turned to me. He had the sort of expression on his face that told me he thought I really should understand, so why didn’t I?
The teacher may have genuinely been concerned with presenting too much information to students but through my classes at Sage, excessive stimuli is good of students with ADD because it gives them many things to focus on instead of causing behavioral problems. I want to have a classroom that has a lot of visuals and educational posters on the wall. Everything in my classroom will have a purpose and will be directly related to what I am teaching or be ongoing projects. I really liked Esme’s ideas and
Great rewards and opportunities also come about while going through the process of growth and development. This is significantly demonstrated in the texts ‘Educating Rita’ by Willy Russell, ‘An Education’ by Nick Hornby and the poem ‘The Door’ by Miroslav Holub. Rita, the street-wise, fast-talking, main character of Educating Rita, embarks on an Open University course because she wants more out of her life. She is discontented- “out of step” with her husband, family and friends- and wants to learn “everything”, hoping that an education will allow her to move into a different world, one where she has some “choice” about the direction of her life. This links to the film ‘An Education’ where David is describing Jenny, “Isn’t it wonderful to find someone who wants to find out new things”.
I would want to have done the same things once I have my own classroom and I feel fairly passionate for students to understand and develop tolerance towards people who may be different than themselves. I feel that as teachers, we can take action to really mold our students to grow and be better individuals living in this world. I really do believe that issues in the matter of race/ethnicity and culture has to do with educating oneself of these things and practicing the basic matters a person should carry with themselves. I really think that these issues need to be discussed in depth when students are young and continuously because it is harder for one’s mind to see the wrong in something they believed was right for most of their
Learning from these mistakes, SHC spent considerable time and effort forming a selection team and gaining consensus for its new EMR system, which resulted in Epic as a clear winner. SHC has successfully involved stakeholders in the selection and implementation strategy; nevertheless, SHC leadership must keep in mind that many people within the organization may be wary of a new system given the frustration that was caused by the implementation of Carecast. The major factors that negatively affect EMR system implementation have to do with people – a lack of strong leadership and effective governance, along with suboptimal change readiness and stakeholder involvement. Inasmuch, SHC leadership must show a long-term commitment to transformation and implementation of the Epic system. Although it is not as common to start implementation with the front office, beginning a rollout with clinical applications would send a positive message to physicians that the new system was integral to the organizations core strategy rather than just an administrative exercise.
If we are to have a society that looks for the well being of all people, we must learn to recognize that as people we are diverse and must learn to embrace one another with love, respect, and honor each others’ uniqueness. For example, in “Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology” by Margaret L. Anderson, and Patricia H. Collins (2010), provided a wealth of information in the narratives they produced from the different scholars and teachers they worked with and interviewed to make this book inspiring and an eye opener to understand our world better. Transformation is not easy and we must be willing to change the way we think on many different issues that deal with gender, race, discrimination, and acceptance of each other despite our differences. The narrative that really touched me the most was “From A Native Daughter”, by Haunani-Kay Trask. I have not appreciated history as much as I should have, not proud to say; however, after reading this narrative it opened my eyes and mind that not everything we read or hear about history is the truth.
Justine Pregler Bcor 2300 The main concepts behind Ron Alsop’s article “The ‘Trophy Kids’ Go to Work” is a basic outlay of how the Millennial generation is currently entering the workforce and within doing so is causing other generations before them to adapt to their new style and expectations of how to be managed. Some of the main factors that set the millennial generation apart from those before it is the overwhelming thought that they were ‘coddled’ by their parents and teachers their whole lives resulting in a generation of individuals who feel a sense of entitlement within life and within the workforce. Some of Alsop’s conclusions include the fact that the millennials are the future of the workforce and that there is this concern about
Within the classroom, lies the emotion that is indirectly portrayed because he, the author, caused his students to feel that certain way by the words that were spoken. “What we don’t have, in other words, are thinkers. People who can think for themselves…” The phrase is one of the examples of how one could think that it was a possibility that he made someone confused or upset since he has a class full of top students. Not only does he make his audience feel negatively about themselves, but he cleverly opens his discussion up making them feel good such as saying, “My students, like you, were energetic, accomplished, smart, and often ferociously ambitious” as if he were preparing them for what is next for him to say. One thing he did not do was leave them on a sore
It is also my belief that by enabling people to share their concerns with the organizations vast number of members can empower someone who may feel they do not have much of a voice when it comes to change. I absolutely find that this is what our country needs more of because at times it is hard to for me to completely have faith that our elected officials really know and understand the trouble of the common man. I found this part of the site to be useful and I may even start a campaign or two here in my own state to get our representatives to be more involved in insuring every student has access to the arts and that they all
The teacher does maintain close tie with the entire community, and by observation is determined to improve the status of the entire community. He is able to recognize inequality present when forcing people who are mentally, physically and intellectually strong in giving up their strengths for a school full of students that are equal and law-abiding. The teacher has a mode of speaking that is very interesting because he creates an intimate link between his mental