Secret #86: Create a team atmosphere with the faculty. Secret #88: Be esepcially respectful of the teacher and administration time and labor. THANK YOU!!!!! I love these secrets! I see education as a team effort with students, teachers, administrators, and parents as the players. We should all work together to encourage, correct, guide, and generally [...]
I am starting another series. This time I picked up What High Schools Don’t Tell You (And Other Parents Don’t Want You to Know) by Elizabeth Wissner. Basically Wissner lays out 309 “secrets” she has compiled from her work as an educational strategist. Wissner asserts that by following her plan, any child can have success [...]
For the past few weeks, I have been volunteering in one of my children’s classes. After seeing the way another teacher runs the classroom and trying to integrate myself into that structure, I started thinking about this whole concept. Parent Volunteers… Do teacher like them? Loathe them? Struggle with control? Welcome with open arms? Try [...]
I have a love/hate relationship with parents, and the scary things is that I am a parent. How do teachers deal with parents and then how do parents deal with teachers? It seems we have arrived at an impasse in the relationship. Let’s start with parents…. What is our job in the education [...]
A major problem in education is poor communication between the various interested parties. What role are parents expected to play? How should financial supporters influence the process? What responsibilities are left to students? Which objectives do teachers give priority? What are the responsibilities of school administrators? Now here’s the thing… if we ran our companies [...]
Does anyone else have those days when nothing seems to get done? Well I have those days often. Maybe it’s just the nature of teaching children (and yes, I am including seniors in high school in that children category) and maybe there is something more insidious going on. Take today for example: I had to [...]