Hi Everyone!
Hope you are enjoying your time to slow down and relax,
During my long teaching career I taught in several types of classrooms: regular, Self-Contained Special Education and Inclusion. Being a Title I Language Arts teacher was also a large part of my life. Each of these teaching situations were a challenge to my classroom management skills!
I just received a FACEBOOK message from my sister in North Carolina. She told me that her daughter-in-law had quite her job because they had added two autistic children and three children with severe behavioral disorders to her class. Her objection was that she has had no training in teaching these children, and she has no aide in her room.
Do you have any input on inclusion...and particularly this situation?
During my long teaching career I taught in several types of classrooms: regular, Self-Contained Special Education and Inclusion. Being a Title I Language Arts teacher was also a large part of my life. Each of these teaching situations were a challenge to my classroom management skills!
I just received a FACEBOOK message from my sister in North Carolina. She told me that her daughter-in-law had quite her job because they had added two autistic children and three children with severe behavioral disorders to her class. Her objection was that she has had no training in teaching these children, and she has no aide in her room.
Do you have any input on inclusion...and particularly this situation?
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While searching for information about helping at-risk students, I ran across the following article from the March issue of The New York Times.
The fact that "children of the rich perform better on standardized tests.
I don't think this is a surprise to anyone, but some of the insights are interesting.
The Great Divide: No Rich Child Left Behind
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My sister-in-law told me about a book she had just finished. She has worked in the cafeteria of a large urban school for many years and found the information in this book to be true. It is about the food served to our students. (On the cover is a "spork!")
You might want to add it to your summer reading list!
FED UP WITH SCHOOL LUNCH: The School Lunch Project by Sarah Wu also known as Mrs. Q
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Almost every Sunday, my husband reads newspaper articles to me. These are things he thinks I might be able to use in teaching. Here is something he read last Sunday...Half way through I asked him why we hadn't heard about it...Why wasn't it on T.V.? He continued reading and I realized it wasn't current events...Interesting!
Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in BostonBOSTON
National guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April 19th by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and... law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
... Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group's organizers as "criminals," issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government's efforts to secure law and order. The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that "none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily." Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government's plans. During a tense standoff in Lexington 's town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units.
Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as "ringleaders" of the extremist faction, remain at large.
. . . And this, people, is how the American Revolution began .
April 20, 1775
Let us not forget!!!
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