Alan Sitomer's Blog – August 2009 Archive (24)

School: when it comes to amassing great fortunes, it's so overrated

It is with great sadness that I must inform everyone that I will be retiring from the world of education. See, a few hours ago, I just learned that a dead 3rd aunt who moved to Senegal in the early 1900's just left me 67 million Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF) -- this is the official note of the Central Bank of the West African States -- which translates into about 32 million US dollars.



Of course, I couldn't begin to explain how ecstatic I was to receive the… Continue

Added by Alan Sitomer on August 5, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

It's more than just apparently suicidal tricks... it's an outlook on life.

I just witnessed a group of teens and young adults who said, with a straight face and all the seriousness in their heart that they could muster, that if they did not figure out a way to improve over their performance of last year, they'd be toast. They knew they needed to grow, adapt, change, evolve and break new ground... for if they didn't, they knew someone else, with more hunger in the belly, would come along and take from them their, well... everything. Their future, their… Continue

Added by Alan Sitomer on August 4, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Do our kids not have much to teach us about how to teach them?

Working on my listening skills has probably been one of the best pieces of PD advice I have ever tried to take to heart.



The fact is, we teachers, we kinda come to class to talk. To impart. To flow outwardly. And in the chaos that is a teaching day, with hundreds of students coming at you from hundreds of angles at a hundred miles an hour seeking hundreds of answers (from "May I go to the bathroom?" to "Do you think Shakespeare really wrote all those plays?" to "Can I bring… Continue

Added by Alan Sitomer on August 3, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Not Only Do I Not Know What I am Doing, Neither Does Anyone

TIME magazine just published this story called Morning the Death of Handwriting. It made me realize that the more deeply I think about my job as a teacher, the more acutley aware I become that I really can't say for sure that I am doing the right thing -- or teaching the right things -- in my classroom.



Sure, my state has standards -- and our nation is currently developing… Continue

Added by Alan Sitomer on August 1, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

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