"When you're in a new place, new environment, the unfamiliar forces you rely and depend on each other."- Relate this quote to your students as the majority of them are bused/transported into a school that is not their home school.
On page 129 Marx provides some unsettling statistics from the Children's Defense Fund. How do these statistics affect your students' well-being, behavior, psyche? What do these statistics mean for you as a teacher to these students?
Why was "Season of Life", a book about the Gilman football team chosen as the intern summer reading?
"When you're in a new place, new environment, the unfamiliar forces you rely and depend on each other."
ReplyDeleteThis quote speaks to me the most probably of anything in this book. Just as the Gilman players had come from all different walks of life and needed to come together to produce greatness, so did my class. Teaching a class of the highest reading level meant that all of my students were very intelligent. However, at my site, combining 3 different schools around Patterson park meant that I had a variety of different students from different cultures, of different ages, and of different skill sets. So in order to keep the classroom flowing, we had to learn about each other.
I know that they learned about themselves and so much more! I hope you had a wonderful experience this summer!
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