Ellen’s Blog

Fostering a sense of respect in students (for their teacher and their peers) is definitely one of my biggest challenges as a student teacher.  Perhaps it is the particular group of students that I work with, but I constantly hear students putting each other down.  Just the other day I was appalled to hear one […]

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 “Michael [English teacher] asks students to place a mark on a concentric circle graph that indicates where they are in relation to the center of money and power.  There are five concentric rings: One is the closest to the center of power and money, and five is the most distant.”  (Appleman’s Critical Encounters in High […]

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