ATL Teacher
Posted in Education, Engineering, Food For Thought, Math, Science, Software, Student Resources, Technology, students, teaching on May 29th, 2008
What THEY think is going on
The bosses say that the “21st century learner” has to power down when they come to school. They say that this student who grew up on getting information from screens, Ipods, Google, AIM, Myspace, etc should be using the same tech at school to learn standards based instruction. They would [...]
Posted in Education, Food For Thought, Student Resources, Whatever is on my mind, issues of class, students, teaching on May 17th, 2008
I was here reading this and was again inspired by my fellow edubloggers out there.
College does not necessarily equal success to many people. My wife has a friend who is a hair-dresser who is making over 6 figures every year and the guy is 25 years old. No college.
I have a friend who went to [...]
Posted in Atlanta, Education, Food For Thought, Student Resources, students, teaching on Apr 23rd, 2008
Teacher Attacked in Atlanta
Teacher Attacked in Alabama
Teacher Attacked in Oklahoma
Lately, I’ve noticed a large number of physical attacks on teachers by students and parents…and I’m very concerned. Obviously I have some concern over my own personal safety. I’ve had students square off on me and take that “I’m ready to swing” on you stance and [...]
Posted in Activism, Education, Food For Thought, Student Resources, students, teaching on Apr 5th, 2008
I just had a radical ( in terms of modern education and accountability ) idea.
What if, instead of students taking just one standardized test per year that measures the child against a set of absolute standards resulting in pass/fail evaluations of student and school performance…each child takes the same standardized pre-test during the first week [...]
Posted in Activism, Black History, Education, Food For Thought, Identity, Student Resources, The Black Family, students, teaching on Mar 30th, 2008
Friday was one of those days at work where I had to ask myself if this was really the right gig for me. The schedule was off, communication about the day’s changes was poor, and the students were really wide open.
I got nearly nothing accomplished. 6th graders are sometimes the most difficult creatures to work [...]
Posted in Education, Food For Thought, Student Resources, Whatever is on my mind, students, teaching on Mar 17th, 2008
I was over at Jose Vilson and I read in one of his posts that he has a teacher myspace page. I had one of these about a year ago but decided to delete it because of all the inappropriate relationships between teachers and students that were popping up in the news. I didn’t want [...]
Posted in Black History, Education, Identity, Issues of Race, Student Resources, students, teaching on Mar 11th, 2008
I’m going to be in the house….will you ?
*SAVE THE DATE
2008 Educational Initiative
Hosted By
Congressman Hank Johnson
“Making Education a Priority
Again Among Black Males:
A Macro & Micro Approach”
Date: Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Macro/Micro Panel: 10:00am-2:00pm
J.C. LRC Auditorium at Georgia Perimeter College
555 North Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston, GA 30021
With Featured Panelists:
Mayor Shirley Franklin, Atlanta, GA
Armstrong Williams, Syndicated Radio [...]
Posted in Education, Food For Thought, Student Resources, The Black Family, Whatever is on my mind, students, teaching on Mar 1st, 2008
One of my morning duties at work is to escort the students from the gymnasium to the 6th grade hall to make sure none of them end up on another hall wreaking havoc and just causing general mayhem. So, yesterday, I’m doing my usual duty when I notice that a young lady has headphones on [...]
Posted in Student Resources, students, teaching on Feb 14th, 2008
Some people say I push my students too hard. I’m often not interested in hearing their excuses about why they weren’t prepared for class. I welcome questions and critiques of my teaching methods from them because I do work for them in the sense that it is my job to provide them with a product [...]
Posted in Education, Student Resources, The Black Family, Whatever is on my mind, students, teaching on Feb 13th, 2008
Nope, This post isn’t a tribute to The Field Negro. It’s about my first time leading a school organized field trip.
I had to take the reigns and make sure everything was on the up and up ( head counts, organization of the group, making sure no two knuckleheads were in the same group, etc ) [...]
