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FINAL BLOG POST - OUR "DAILY TRIPLE" (DUE 12/1).
This week I would like you to use your imagination. You have just won the lottery and will leave your teaching post immediately to travel around the world. As you leave your keys you meet your replacement. You are asked to give this new teacher just ONE piece of advice. What would that be, and why? Enjoy your world expedition!

Blog Post - Week 7
This past week in my own teaching I felt a little disconnected which prompts my question to you, "What was the moment (or moments) when I felt most disconnected or disengaged as a teacher - the moment(s) I said to myself, I'm just going through the motions here?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 6
For the past couple of weeks you have experienced asynchronous online learning (doing modules by yourself). Previously this semester you have experienced synchronous online learning (all together in the Collaborate room). Which do you think is more effective and why do you think that? Which do you like better, and why?

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 5
This week we have what we call "open mic." You can write a post about anything related to your teaching that you would like responses from your classmates.

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 4
Here is this week's question: "What was the event that most took me surprise this week - and event that shook me up, caught me off guard, gave me a jolt, or made me unexpectedly happy?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 3
Please write a post about the following question, "In thinking about my past week teaching what is one thing I would do differently, and why?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 2
Please write a post about the following question, " In thinking about my teaching activities this past week, of what do I feel most proud? Why?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 1
Describe something you used in your program in the first weeks of school that you learned in the summer NTI program. How did it work? Did it get you off to a stronger start than last year?

Monday, December 10, 2007

Those were the days

Did you know that teaching is rank among the risk jobs in America? Did you know that teachers are among the endangered species in America? The high premium that was placed on education and its educators is now in the dim and distance past. School administrators are becoming less and less capable of dealing with the behavior that has pierce the walls of our schools.
Security is the biggest concern for most school principals, since some of our schools have become a battlefield for criminals. Some teachers have to contend on a daily basis, with students with knives and guns and parents threatening teachers at every opportunity they get.
Our young boys and girls are growing up without mothers and fathers, and the age of parent-wood is getting lower and lower each day.
NTI teachers please do not give up on our youths all is not yet lost the day is still young.

4 comments:

joec said...

T-Man
I teach at a "technical" high school. We receive students from four "regular" county high schools. Security has not been a large concern for us in the past - the occassional fight, etc. Lately drugs have been our growing concern. I think I have a few kids selling, but am not sure. Is there a reference model out there for new teachers? I have read board policy - I could quote it. The reality is that most instructors don't really know what to do when they just "suspect" a student is dealing/using. If any of the "old" teachers are reading-HELP!
joec

Dwayne Connors said...

Plain and simple, We need to make a place for God in all of this. Our country was founded on that same principal. He's the cure-all.

steve said...

I guess if the politicians could look back at the time when they BANNED GOD from public schools,I would hope that they would change their minds.But when your hear GODS name used the way it is on television and the radio it's no wonder the schools are like they are.It seems Very few people care anymore,and those who do can't seem to shout as loud as the ones who don't.Just my thoughts.Have a very merry CHRISTmas.

Victoria said...

Greetings NTI,
I concur with all of your comments and ask myself daily if I am CERTAIN that I want to deal with the elements that come along with teaching. There are many good students with morals and values, but as they say, "one apple can spoil the bunch". I know that if we don't bring God back into the schools and our lives, we will continue to fight relentlessly and without the proper weapons. "For the weapons of this warfare are not physical...."
Never Give Up!