As I am an educator, I
figured it would be best to
post something about education for my first entry. Feel free to ask questions, comment, or even write about your own thoughts on the subject.
Who hasn't heard the phrase "life-long learner"? Learning and Psychological development are life-long and are greatly influenced by the ongoing diversity of human experience. This statement is even more essential in terms of our society and our society's classrooms now and in the future. There is an ancient Chinese Proverb that states “Never stop learning as long as you live”. This saying is at least a thousand years old when learning was slow and
life spans were shorter. It is even more relevant today when science and technology make advances on a
daily basis and people live twice as long as they did a thousand years ago.
The world seems to be advancing, changing, and
morphing faster than I can remember in my lifetime. With all these changes,
changes that come on like a wave when you turn your back to the ocean, we as humans, and maybe more importantly as educators, have an unyielding responsibility to ourselves and our students to adapt, learn, and grow with the changes – to turn and face that
unwieldy ocean. I went into my Master's program hoping to be
squeezed out on the other side as a perfect, uniform, all-knowing teacher – a “
Ken” doll of a teacher if you will. What I came out as though is quite the opposite: an imperfect, misshapen mold of an educator who was then in full recognition of his flaws. I did not
fret however, for this is a wonderful thing! I am now fully aware of my faults, my struggles, my imperfections, and am more capable of improving upon them. We must continue to learn throughout our time as educators as we are entrusted with our world’s future, the children. They must become even more capable than us, and we are the ones to show them the way.
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Figure - (Verb, informal) to conclude, judge, reason, or think about. This is much more common in speech than in writing.
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Post - (Internet Language) to place (text) on some sort of website, blog, message board, etc.
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Life Span - Another word for lifetime, or the maximum or average length of time something is expected to survive.
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come on like a wave when you turn your back - (
simile) If any of you have ever been swimming in an ocean that has large waves, sometimes when you turn your back you get hit by a wave unexpectedly.
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Morph - to be transformed.
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Unwieldy - not readily handled or managed in use or action, as from size, shape, or weight; awkward.
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Squeezed out on the other side - like an unshaped lump of clay being pushed through a tube and coming out the other side a perfect circular shape.
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Ken-doll of a teacher - (
metaphor) A Ken Doll is the 'perfect' boyfriend of the Barbie doll. I used it here for humor to state that I thought I would come out of my graduate program as a perfect teacher.
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fret - to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent.
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on a daily basis - everyday, once everyday.
that I didn't have any because I am not Christian and she replied, "But it's Christmas...it doesn't matter if you are Christian, everyone celebrates Christmas!" What do you think? Why do you think so many people celebrate Christmas (especially in the U.S.) even though they technically aren't Christian. 
week! Here it is:
In our class on Saturday someone brought up the fact that racism exists in every country in the world, even if on some very small level. Why do you think this is? Is racism inherent in human beings? Or, is there something on a world societal level that nutures our racism?
ways he could attempt to gain freedom for 'his people/country'?
Obviously, there cannot be something inherent in women to force them into more accidents, as well as something for men that makes them get into more severe accidents. What do you think are some of the factors that contribute to these statistics?
"Would you like to see smoking banned in ALL public places? Why or why not?"
"Your friend gains 20 kilograms over the period of 3 months. Do you tell your friend that you have noticed his/her weight gain? If yes, what do you say? If not, why not?
"What kind of things do you postpone doing? Why do you think this is?"
