HELP FOR TEACHERS WHO ARE JUST STARTING OUT OR WHO HAVE RUN INTO A SITUATION THEY HAVE NEVER ENCOUNTERED BEFORE.

WE ALL NEED HELP!

I taught full time for fifteen years and am now subbing so that I can finish my novel. I don't have all the answers. None of us do. In fact, even if something works great for me, there is no guarantee it will work for you.
I hope that we will give each other suggestions. I went to all the trainings I could get my principal to approve when I taught full-time. I talked to a lot of teachers. AND I just kept trying things until I found something that worked FOR ME. We can not go against our own nature. Kids can sense that and will test us.
So, don't give up. Keep on trying new things and always know that there is a place to go where you can be anonymous and speak freely.
Best of Luck to all of you. Our children deserve the best that we can offer.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Taking Things Out of Context Is Like Lying to Make Your Point

"When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong." (Cultural historian Thomas Frank) Esoterica: "Context" is defined as "the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed." In broader terms "out of context" (sometimes referred to as contextomy) is a logical fallacy in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning. Good examples of taking things out of context are the sentences or partial sentences originally written by scientists that have been selected for other meanings by overly-zealous creationists, and sometimes vice versa. Taking things out of context doesn't lead to truth in argument or in art.