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While at my field experience last week the FCS teacher approached me and asked me if I would be interested in talking to her class about being a young mom in order to encourage these girls to prevent teen pregnancy. At first I thought it was something good I could do but then I realized that after these kids knew I was a young unmarried mom they may think less of me. I was and still am torn about whether or not I should talk to her class like she wants me to. Would it make me a more marketable job applicant in the future or will it just make me seem like someone that was irresponsible. I talked to Dr. Sherry about this and he said he wasn't sure what the right thing to do would be. I would be interested in hearing what the rest of the class has to say about the possibility of me doing this. How much should we, as teachers, share with our students about our own personal lives?

Yesterday in my field experience I was with a slightly rowdy and rambunctious group of seniors who are academically consider to be placed in a lower level innovations class. I thorougly enjoyed every aspect however, there was a quick and quite situation where the teacher told the student to "shut up." Since this did concern me, I asked the teacher after class her beleifs on PBS and how she employs it in her classroom. She wanted me to be specific and give a hypothetical example about how she would utilize PBS and in response I asked her why she told the particualr student to "shut up" verses trying to encourage him to stay on task through praise of other on task students. Her response in sum essentially was the following: "these are different kinds of kids, we have very gifted kids, and very low level learners with many behavioral and emotional disabilites...shut up is a way to get through to them." In the end I am at a loss. Is it right that a student was told to shut up? Or is it okay if it "works."

Hello all :

Lets take a look at this video - thoughts?

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I'm interested in talking about setting realistic goals for all levels of students. I know that, in my case and most likely all of yours if you had tracking in your school, I was with the same people from K-12. I started in the program with four other people in elementary school, got to middle school and ended up in honors with them, stayed in honors and AP with them all through high school, and joined the same activities as them. I never really got a chance to see lower level students in action and I'm not sure I know how to differentiate the design of my assignments for them. I'm just not sure what assignments and assessments for those students should look like. Any thoughts? I'm not sure if other people experienced this at all, but it's frustrating for me when I'm designing my lessons! Responses NCTE Student Affiliate links: https://www.goodreads.com/ [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []