tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148804257593620560.post5551949072884282078..comments2023-07-01T06:55:20.634-07:00Comments on 99hightechjetfighters: Missed Class...went to Ohio...usually a bad idea...not this timeRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03766469637543241388noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148804257593620560.post-89000979805169769272012-07-29T17:31:45.844-07:002012-07-29T17:31:45.844-07:00Skype! Excellent idea! I had not thought of this...Skype! Excellent idea! I had not thought of this. After meeting with this group, I know I will run into situations where they can help. This will be an excellent technology tool to use if I need their help. <br /><br />I have not yet researched similar groups in the Detroit area but I intend to do so.Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03766469637543241388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148804257593620560.post-51983253229834429692012-07-28T19:35:09.556-07:002012-07-28T19:35:09.556-07:00What a fascinating session; hate I missed it! Your...What a fascinating session; hate I missed it! Your comments about the Voices Against Violence organization makes me ask myself how often I consider my moral responsibility to my students to provide addition resources for the problems and situations that extend beyond my control. What other organizations were mentioned in the session? Have you been able to find any others that might be useful with urban or rural schools in our area? and the Voices Against Violence, what sort of services do they offer long distance? Anything making use of Skype?becarriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01332464265022861868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148804257593620560.post-30927066053852022512012-07-27T17:26:55.927-07:002012-07-27T17:26:55.927-07:00I am very intrigued by your report from the confer...I am very intrigued by your report from the conference, especially the volunteers' description of teachers. I hope you'll revisit this when you're embedded in a school this fall so you can see whether or not (or to what extent) it feels accurate to you. Clearly, part of the national debate on education is this issue of how the public views teachers (awesome and well-educated? or over-paid, self-centered, and/or lazy?). What is fact? What is fiction? You're about to find out!Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16662491469737183823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148804257593620560.post-7547524142583229692012-07-26T21:50:57.402-07:002012-07-26T21:50:57.402-07:00"How can we, as new teachers, take on this on..."How can we, as new teachers, take on this one more thing?"<br /><br />Well...I don't have a good answer. First I would say that if we ever think in terms of "one more thing" we will be severely disappointed....it's never just one more thing.<br /><br />Maybe rephrased...."How can we keep taking on all these things?"<br /><br />When I was in the corporate world, the answer was, "Add it to the pile...what ever is on fire gets taken care of first, what the boss wants is second, and everything else third."<br /><br />Unfortunately I am not sure we can apply that here because we are dealing with human lives....not cars.<br /><br />I say all that to say "I don't know." We need a management system....of technology, of teaching techniques, of new ideas, of research, of....lots of stuff. No answer yet...Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03766469637543241388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148804257593620560.post-39491691233732246572012-07-26T16:57:19.764-07:002012-07-26T16:57:19.764-07:00I'm really intrigued by your take-away message...I'm really intrigued by your take-away message to get involved with local nonprofits. As a volunteer for 826 Michigan, I was in classrooms on a weekly basis at the middle- and high-school levels. We provided something of a tutor role, giving students that one-to-one time that we've seen from this summer can make such a difference.<br /><br />I am equally intrigued by the idea that teachers are the ones putting up resistance to school-nonprofit relationships. I wonder: Is that specific to the type of nonprofit? For example, might a teacher not want to bring in a "non-academic" program (for various reasons, including perhaps that they think they know better), but, like the teachers who signed up for 826 volunteers, embrace student support in the classroom for academic work?<br /><br />Or might it come down to another reason: teachers who are concerned about loss of control in the classroom? I could see some teachers being anxious even about allowing volunteers like me, for fear that we wouldn't do things the way the teacher wanted them done, and that that might end up causing the teacher more time and effort with students in the bigger picture.<br /><br />I suppose that speaks to another issue: time. Teachers are so pressed. Can they even think about how to incorporate one more thing (even if that thing would end up having benefit to kids, academically or otherwise)? There must be a weighing of how much effort the teacher will have to put into the relationship with the volunteers/program, and whether the benefits outweigh that effort.<br /><br />So I think it's great that you are thinking about how to bring in community resources. I'd like to do this, too.<br /><br />How can we, as new teachers, take on this one more thing?Teacher of Tomorrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06282337298701561774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148804257593620560.post-39578413903333307322012-07-25T15:44:41.548-07:002012-07-25T15:44:41.548-07:00Hmm.the trip sounds interesting as well as being f...Hmm.the trip sounds interesting as well as being fruitful. I agree with the presentation on the teachers. All too many times I have seen teachers with my children thinking they know more than we, as parents, do. After all they spend an hour a day with them for 180 days...but yet, when you try to give them some insight to your child it falls on deaf ears in some cases. I think it is admirable that this resonated with you. I have met some teachers, my kids work with, that have been fantastic. They want the feedback and support from the parents and I have always found my children relate, and do the best, in those classes. Not to mention they end up being their favorite teachers!Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12868493646027420106noreply@blogger.com