1. Accept Change as the Norm. Concentrate on becoming a lifelong learner not one who sees education as the completion of a formal education. 2. Success is fly in the eye of a frog. Success is more in what you give to others rather than a big bank account. Focus on the right priorities and… Read more »
An educational administrator’s professional behavior must conform to an ethical code. The code must be idealistic and at the same time practical, so that it can apply reasonably to all educational administrators. The administrator acknowledges that the schools belong to the public they serve for the purpose of providing educational opportunities to all. However, the… Read more »
An 8th-grade project turns into new rules Catcalls will get your parents called. So will dirty notes and lewd staring. Groping, or one too many crude comments, means in-school suspension. These are the new rules of sexual harassment for students at Avondale Middle School, as developed by Maria Kopicki’s eighth-grade class. Come fall, what started… Read more »
(Note. Minor editing changes are included ) Advantages — This policy will reduce and eliminate a lot of teasing and touching presently existing in schools. School officials and teaching staff will be responsible for carrying out this policy. Disadvantages- Students may not always be trustworthy when reporting sexual harassment and may get innocent students in… Read more »
WASHINGTON — Teenagers who do not get along well with their fathers are more likely to smoke, drink and use drugs than youngsters in average two-parent families, according to a national study released Monday. Further, the study found, even teenagers from one-parent families, typically headed by mothers, are less at risk from tobacco, alcohol and… Read more »
“Service is the rent we pay for our lives on earth In recent years service has come to have a negative connotation — often used as punishment. At the same time service is one of the major avenues in developing positive attitudes and healthy self-esteem. I would like to propose that all students be strongly… Read more »
CHICAGO – High school students who watch lots of television and music videos are more likely to start drinking than other youngsters, researchers say. The Stanford University study of 1,533 ninth-graders also showed that youngsters who rented movies were less likely to start drinking, while playing video and computer games had no effect. Watching TV… Read more »
They Really Do Go Together One of the questions I hear frequently goes something like this: “Don’t those teenagers and their bad manners ever get you down?” The answer is NO on two counts. First, teenagers never get me down. I’ve made my living teaching them for thirty-three years, and it seems to get more… Read more »
10 Needs for Teens 1. TEENS NEED TO BE LOVED 2. TEENS NEED TO BE HEARD 3. TEENS NEED POSITIVE MESSAGES 4. TEENS NEED POSITIVE CHILD MANAGEMENT METHODS 5. TEENS NEED AUTONOMY 6. TEENS NEED TO INTERACT WITH PEERS VERBALLY AND PHYSICALLY (SOClALlZE) 7. TEENS ARE AWARE OF AND INFLUENCED BY THEIR OWNSEXUALITY ACCURATE OR… Read more »
What kind of human being do we want to emerge from our efforts at moral education? What are the characteristics of the morally mature person? A moment’s reflection tells us that moral maturity is more than just knowing what is right. The world is full of people who know what is right but set moral… Read more »
