Education
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Education
Like many retired folk, I have a part time job to supplement my pension. I was delighted to find a job for 3 hours a day, M-F, that wasn’t retail and didn’t mean working with food or on weekends. I work in a school, in a classroom. Full disclosure: I am not a credentialed teacher, just a mom/grandma with a big heart and lots of ideas who loves children enough to help out in a school. I say that because I am going to tell you what I am seeing in the school, what is going in the classroom. I see a lot of frustration and sadness; the teachers, the aides, the parents and the children. It’s not all bad and I really enjoy the children and the majority of them are happy, energetic kids. I live in a rural community, there is a field of cows across the street and a pasture with lambs right next to the playground. The town is small and the neighbors know each other well, some of the student’s grandparents attended this school. Some of the staff attended this school as children. Sounds like a scene out of a Rockwell painting doesn’t it?
- Written by: Joyce Wilson
- Category: Education
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) is an integrative, interdisciplinary “hands-on” approach to teaching. Its objective is to teach science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as a cohesive, coherent learning dynamic rooted in real-world experiences and applications.
Read more: Hands-On Learning Through STEM Lesson Plans and Tools
- Written by: Joyce Wilson
- Category: Education
If you’re a teacher in America, you know the importance of supplementing your income. The average teacher’s salary can range from $30K-$50K, depending on your experience and location but earning a little extra money is always a positive. Side gigs are a great way to boost your budget and give yourself something to do during summer break, but have you thought of ways to work your gig into your school-year schedule? Here are a few ideas to help you work your side gig all year long.
Read more: 5 TIPS TO MAKE A TEACHER'S FINANCIAL GOALS A REALITY
In 1966 my mom was having problems with my asshole step-dad. She decided that I needed some positive male influence and spoke to my father who had his own concerns about my being brainwashed by parochial school into wanting to become a priest. Their solution was to send me to military school, New York Military Academy was the choice.
- Written by: Bonnie Bertelson
- Category: Education
Remember that old limerick that went, “No more pencils! No more books! No more teachers’ dirty looks!”? I sure do – it’s a traditional rhyme I learned when I was in first grade. And in my memories, I can still hear the older kids chanting it on the bus on the last day of school, as the driver (happily) completed his final route for the year.
- Written by: Bonnie Bertelson
- Category: Education
This past summer, my daughter registered my seven year old granddaughter for the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools program. The six week course was held in the elementary school building of our small town – a town where the population is 95.7% white and residents living below the poverty level is at 21.4%. [i]
I really hate to ask but, our Angel investor has had to pull further funding of the IFZ website...
Obviously this news coming so unexpectedly has got me scrambling to save our ‘home’. This puts us in a precarious position, not only for completing Phase Two which would make the site ‘mobile friendly’, but also for the list of improvements we have planned and in fact for maintaining the site all together.
Recently I have been reading about speakers who are being censored in universities in the US, Canada and the UK by students who are deeply offended by their points of view. In some instances, offended students attempt to no-platform a speaker, in others they will loudly interrupt the lecture or flee to “safe spaces.” Stories like these are causing a bit of a stir in the press these days.
Read more: The free speech crisis in universities: the case of Christina Hoff Sommers
- Written by: Laura Helvey
- Category: Education
Borderlines are called Borderlines because they are on the edge of being called psychotic.
Everyone has had that one (or two) people in their lives that constantly make up drama around them and then act like they hate drama. Why do people do this? What kind of a person wants drama in their lives? Who would want to alienate themselves over and over with new groups of people constantly? Well, it is a mental illness called borderline personality disorder. Throughout the years I have come across many bipolar people but very few borderline personalities. However, when you meet a borderline personality, it stays with you for awhile and when you befriend a person with borderline personality disorder it can pain you to have to walk away.
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