As a teacher, this has also proven to be true in my classroom.
Having been raised on welfare, I had to relearn good nutritional habits in college and I try to model that behavior in my classroom.
In my classroom I had to figure out how to love my students into learning, so I used the same model outlined by Dr. Perkins.
It has helped increase student engagement in my classroom by ensuring that the lessons I teach my students are reflective of who they are racially, culturally and linguistically.
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In later years, I welcomed these same children as older students into my classroom to scaffold their learning as they proceeded toward their next level of knowledge and understanding.
Oh, and if you want to know how effective I am as a teacher, here is a simple metric- walk into my classroom and sit down for an hour or so.
My grandmother, bored by inactivity within weeks of the move, created a job for herself at a commuter college in Sarasota, teaching Russian literature to tanned students who seem (based on my one classroom visit) constantly alarmed by her profanity, her heavy sarcasm, and her word-perfect memory of Pushkin's verse.
Outside of the classroom my work in education has revolved around systemic transformational change, in the realm of teacher education and support.
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"I remember walking into my children's classroom and all the little kids tilting their heads sideways, like they were looking for the rest of my leg, " she says.
Teachers go to work every day to transform and inspire young people and I am so lucky to work with colleagues, families, and young people who drive my passion for the classroom with each waking morning.
The experience of working for my MBA in a classroom with people of various ethnicities, cultures and religions not only developed multicultural business skills, but enabled me to attain a better understanding of what we are as human beings, that is a major benefit.
It was a unique experience because in no other classroom setting had my own opinion been asked.
Now, as a teacher in my eighth year in the classroom, I consider every day that I go to work a privilege.
What will I tell my daughter, or tell a classroom of young students?
At the same time, we must recognize that my MOOC does not replicate the Darden classroom experience.
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When I received the news about Junior, I had just walked out of my daughter's second-grade classroom.
The training I have received and the experience I have gained by deploying to disasters has had a tremendous impact on my teaching, my research, and my approach to service learning in the classroom.
This mindset has illuminated my path in education both in and outside of the classroom.
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"I never want to lead anybody or teach anybody anything I've never done before, and so I don't want to be in the classroom or be in a leadership position telling my teachers how to teach, " he says.
My crew and I get a firsthand glimpse in one Bucca classroom.
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"I had a great facility for entertaining every member of the classroom, I had a great facility for entertaining my parents, " he said.
The LeapPad features measuring and sorting games that use cute cartoons to employ learning strategies similar to the activities my 5-year-old does in his progressive kindergarten classroom.
Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.
In short, my priority in the education debate is putting the best teachers into the classroom.
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