I decided to start this blog to give educators, parents and other cool people a real life account of my work with public, urban schools and one suburban school over the past thirteen years. I also wanted to remember the many people and experiences that have brought me to my current thinking about issues of equity in K-12 education. I'm going to keep it real except for some names and places which have been changed to protect the identity of the innocent and the villains. In order to tell the whole story, I use a pen name.Posts are best read in chronological order. The Beginning is the first of the mini-chapters that will be added consecutively like in a novel.
Please feel free to participate and share your own experience. You'll get extra credit for posting comments, adding yourself as a public follower or subscribing through the RSS feed! See the links on the right.
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To get it right: what's k-12 education? We don't have that in Belgium.
ReplyDeleteNice. I'm not an educator but most of my family are involved in teaching. I've always found the tales from schools interesting.
ReplyDeleteK-12 is free public education that each US state provides for children in kindergarten through high school (ages 5 to about 17). University is not free in the US.
ReplyDeleteThanks Burch! Teachers are good people.
ReplyDeleteI would like to hear more specifics about what went on in your class room and what specifically you learned from Prentiss. M.
ReplyDeleteMore to come on Mrs. Prentiss. Stay tuned!
ReplyDeleteHey!! Thanks for finding me...I am a new follower, and I am currently getting my degree in special education!! You can follow my story @ http://southernloves.blogspot.com/ ~ Marlie
ReplyDeleteWelcome aboard!
ReplyDeleteSabine,
ReplyDeleteHaving feverishly read all of your blog, I have to say it is truly amazing. As a recent education graduate, just staring out in the field, it is everything that I should have been told before jumping in and then some! I liken this journey to a pregnancy. All anyone wants to tell you are the beautiful, happy things. No one wants to tell you about the back aches, mood swings or spontaneous crying jags. I think having this available for education students to read will truly enlighten them as to what they are getting into. Hopefully creating teachers better equipped to teach in the real world. Keep going, this is awesome!
Thank you for reading Nicole. I LOVE your metaphor!
ReplyDeleteI love to to contribute!:)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work you have here!
Welcome aboard Leon!
ReplyDeleteI have to come back and read more. This is great.
ReplyDeleteThank you for emailing the link! I plan to read more... I can't wait and I'm sure I can relate, although I teach in a suburban school.
ReplyDeletegreat job sabine, good luck with the blog
ReplyDelete@Edward Thank you and welcome!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea and thanks for doing this! I don't think most people understand what teachers do in a day, what is expected of them, and how NOT compensated they are for thier time. I look forward to readign!!
ReplyDeleteLove your writing Sabine.
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ReplyDeleteMy first day was also surreal. I had 40 students in a classroom that had 30 seats, and many of the students towered over me. I was nick-named "Little Teach." It got worse before it got better. I still remember the principal telling me that my job was to keep the kids off the street. If I managed to teach them something, that was nice but irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteNice blog. Welcome. I've been blogging for five and a half years. I've been teaching for about 20 years, the last fourteen in the same high school. I look forward to reding, being read, sharing comments, experiences, etc.
ReplyDeleteDear Sabina da Silva
ReplyDeleteThis Blog shows great inteligence, love and writng skills beyond presumed age . I would love to follow your blog although I do not have resources to follow you closely at this moment. As the situation permits we will have some deep discussions which will allow deeper issues to surface.
I live in Palenque Chiapas now. It is perhaps the center of Mayan Meso American culture. There are hundreds pyramids here alone and there are uncountable pyramid sites in Meso America. This is a wonderful hub to begin exploring Tropics of Latin America and its endless rivers and waterfalls. I teach English as second language and Internet free of service where ever possible. J Krishnamurti wrote in introduction to Science of Education some very important points for us to investigate and explore true meaning of education and significance of living see http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/index.php
"we choose because we don´t know if we know as clear as the cobra few steps infront of you then you do not need to choose, the action is immediate.
Love Paul
Thank you Paul and welcome. I look forward to hearing more about your school and your teaching experiences. Thank you for sharing the link.
ReplyDeleteI have found this blog interesting as I went to school in the USA in 1958 only for half a year otherwise I did home schooling or correspondence school from New Zealand we lived in America for quite a few years.
ReplyDeleteI can say that sharing your experience with the other people will help lot of people to learn some thing.
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