Education Quotes and Sayings

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok"

Education Quotes and Sayings

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin"

Education Quotes and Sayings

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain"

Education Quotes and Sayings

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana"

Behavior Concerns

One of the biggest issues that I face on a daily basis in the classroom is dealing with a plethora of multifaceted behavior issues....The stories that my colleagues and I could tell would make most teachers look for another profession, pronto..I have students whose impulsivities conclude with them hitting, pushing, or punching other students daily.... All of the energy that is needed to handle the incidents in question take away from my primary job:TEACHING...There is limited support staff to handle these "interruptions" in regards to the size of our student population....Unless the students emotional well being is examined, we will continue to have to shoehorn lessons in between the frequent verbal and physical outbursts...Any thoughts on what can be done to improve this problem?????

WHAT will make it better???

I have worked in an inner city school for the past eleven years....We have repeatedly been labeled as a "failing" school....WHAT is the problem?....I work with dedicated, educated colleagues who give 110% daily....We have participating in data driven instruction for a few years now....ANY program that we are told to teach, is completed to the best of our ability...I refuse to believe that it is OUR teachers
that are part of the problem.....In reality, we can not do it alone, though it feels as if we are indeed....There is a noteable absense of parental involvement in our community....I average seeing 4-5 parents on Back-To-School Night each year, and I teach FIRST grade, when you would think that the parents would WANT to meet the teacher....Bookbags are rarely cracked open to view important correspondance from the school....Yet, when there is to be blame cast for the reasons for the student's failing, the teachers are the first to have the finger pointed at them.....I understand that "It Takes A Village" to guarantee our students success....

I would like your thoughts on the "reasons" for this learning gap, and WHAT measures need to be addressed to recify the situation.